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Parental Self‐Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety: Scale Development and Validation
Author(s) -
Nicolas Claire C.,
Jorm Anthony F.,
CardamoneBreen Mairead C.,
Lawrence Katherine A.,
Yap Marie B. H.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12521
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , depression (economics) , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , structural equation modeling , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics
Burgeoning research suggests that parents can reduce the risk of anxiety and depression in their adolescents and that parental self‐efficacy ( PSE ) may be related to parental risk and protective factors for these disorders. As there are currently no measures available to assess PSE in relation to parenting behaviors that may reduce adolescent risk for depression and anxiety, we developed and validated a measure of PSE , the Parental Self‐Efficacy Scale ( PSES ). Using a sample of 359 parents and 332 adolescents (aged 12–15), the PSES was found to have high reliability, confirmatory factor analysis supported its validity, and most of the hypothesized relationships between the PSES and other measures of parenting practices and adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms were supported.