Researching Parental Socialization Styles across Three Cultural Contexts: Scale ESPA29 Bi-Dimensional Validity in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil

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Researching Parental Socialization Styles across Three Cultural Contexts: Scale ESPA29 Bi-Dimensional Validity in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil

Isabel Martínez Fernando Garcia María C. Fuentes Feliciano Henriques Veiga Oscar F. Garcia Yara Rodrigues De La Iglesia Edie Cruise Emilia Serra

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Male Parents Adolescent Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Psychology Adolescent Cultural context Multi-group analysis lcsh:Medicine Parenting styles 050109 social psychology Models Psychological Adolescents Article Structural equation modeling Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Age groups Surveys and Questionnaires factorial invariance Parenting styles Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine adolescents Child Factorial invariance Parenting Portugal Parental warmth and strictness parenting styles Socialization lcsh:R 05 social sciences Socialization Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Factorial invariance Self Concept parental warmth and strictness Convergent validity Spain Scale (social sciences)multi-group analysis Female Psychology Brazil

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Recent research that relates parenting with adolescent adjustment has shown the importance of considering the cultural context of the relationship. New results are emerging when considering the classical four-typologies model of parental socialization in some European and South-American countries. Among the instruments used in this emergent research is the Parental Socialization Scale ESPA29. This scale is a bi-dimensional parenting instrument that was specifically developed to measure the four parenting typologies, through the dimensions of acceptance/involvement and strictness/imposition. This study examines the good fit of the orthogonal bi-factor model based on the ESPA29 versus one-dimensional and bi-dimensional oblique alternative models, with three adolescent samples from 12 to 17 years old (53.4% girls), from Spain (N = 826), Portugal (N = 752), and Brazil (N = 628). We applied structural equation models (SEMs) to analyze the fit of the models to the data. The results confirm a better fit to the data for the orthogonal bi-factor model versus one-dimensional and bi-dimensional oblique alternative models across country, adolescent sex, and the three age groups. Additionally, the convergent validity of the scale was proved by showing the relation of the two parenting dimensions with self-concept. The results guarantee the adequacy of the ESPA29 to measure parenting styles.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2019-01-11	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

10.3390/ijerph16020197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16020197