The Adaptation Study Of Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) To Turkish

In this study, “Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ)” was adapted into Turkish. 330 mothers and 330 fathers with children from 6-14 years for a total of 660 parents took part in sample. First, the permission of PAQ was taken to be used within the scope of the research and under the views and suggestions of experts the Turkish form of scale was established. After that, the validity and reliability of the scale were analyzed. In the final stage, descriptive statistics of the PAQ for mothers and fathers were calculated and the percent of the raw scores, z and T scores conver- sions were calculated. The internal consistency coefficients of the scale was found to be .85 in the dimension of “permissive authority”, “authoritarian authority” .87, and “authoritative authority” .85. In practice the reliability of the scale for different in- tervals were .96 for “permissive authority”, .97 “authoritarian authority” and .93 “authoritative authority” respectively.