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TOWARDS A TAILORED MEASURE OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES: AN APPROACH TO THE EVALUATION OF ONE ASPECT OF INTERVENTION PROJECTS WITH PARENTS OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
JUDSON SHIRLEY L.,
BURDEN ROBERT L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1980.tb00796.x
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , measure (data warehouse) , scale (ratio) , psychology , rating scale , developmental psychology , applied psychology , process (computing) , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database , psychiatry , operating system
Summary One important aspect of early intervention projects involving parents of handicapped children, namely changes in parental attitudes, would seem to have been elusive to study. This paper describes an approach to measurement in this area in which the measure is constructed around the specified objectives of the project under investigation. An outline is given of the process by which a Maternal Self‐Rating Scale was devised, together with a description of the Scale and evidence regarding its usefulness within an evaluative study.