Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Child self-care autonomy in health (scale for parents): development, internal structure, and sex/age correlates
Originally published 2023-08-24 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1243400 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Which independent health tasks does this instrument ask a parent to observe?
This article examines how a parent-report scale measures a child’s ability to handle health-related self-care. The study makes room for the child’s own perspective or responsibility in a decision families can recognise.
Who was studied?
Russian-speaking parents in Russia completing an online child self-care measure.
Age / stage: Childhood
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how a parent-report scale measures a child’s ability to handle health-related self-care?
- Which items capture the construct, and which aspects of daily life might they miss?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is russian-speaking parents in Russia completing an online child self-care measure.
Keep the limits in view
Evidence on a questionnaire concerns its measurement properties in the sampled group. It does not show that changing a score will change a child’s later outcomes.
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Oxana Mikhaylova; Anastasia Bochkor; Polina Osipova; Denis Popov; Maria Chepeleva; Evgenia Rybakova (2023). Child self-care autonomy in health (scale for parents): development, internal structure, and sex/age correlates Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1243400
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