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Understanding A sian parenting from a R asch perspective
Author(s) -
Tan ChengYong
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2012.01383.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , autonomy , developmental psychology , coercion (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , political science , law
This study examines the factor structure of A sian child‐reported parenting from a R asch perspective. Participants comprised 291 sixth graders (11 to 13 years) in S ingapore. Six different aspects of parenting were measured, namely warmth , rejection , structure , chaos , autonomy support , and coercion . R asch A nalysis was used to transform ordinal data into linear measures; category functioning was examined; residual‐based principal components were analysed; differential item functioning was assessed; and items and subjects that were misfitting were removed. Results showed that parenting comprised six dimensions, namely warmth , autonomy support , structure‐control , structure‐warmth , chaos , and negative parenting . The findings suggest that it is important for A sian parents to provide guidance to their children (in structure‐control and structure‐warmth ) and reaffirms the relevance of warmth in A sian parenting.