TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of the item-reduced version of the comprehensive general parenting questionnaire for caregivers of preschoolers in a Finnish context
AU - Ray, Carola
AU - van der Borgh-Sleddens, Ester
AU - Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo, Rejane
AU - Gubbels, Jessica
AU - Bjelland, Mona
AU - Roos, Eva
N1 - Funding Information:
The DAGIS project and this study was financially supported by Folkhälsan Research Center, University of Helsinki, The Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland (ER), The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (ER), The Academy of Finland (Grant: 285439, 315816) (ER), the Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg foundation (ER), and the Medicinska Föreningen Liv och Hälsa (ER). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors thank the families who participated in the WEB survey (Study 1); the preschools, the preschool personnel, and the families for their participation in the DAGIS study; and the research staff for data collection. The authors also thank the collaborating partners of the DAGIS study for providing assistance in designing the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Ray et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022/8/4
Y1 - 2022/8/4
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Many instruments for assessing general parenting have been reported as burdensome and are thus seldom used in studies exploring children's energy balance-related behaviors or weight. This study evaluates the factorial structure of the item-reduced version of the Comprehensive General Parenting Questionnaire (CGPQ), which assesses five constructs of general parenting.METHODS: The study uses data from two cross-sectional studies: Study 1 in 2014 (n = 173) and Study 2 in 2015-16 (n = 805). Parents of children aged three to six answered the CGPQ; in Study 1 the 69-item version, and in Study 2 the 29-item version. The reduction was based on the results of the confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) in Study 1. In both datasets, internal consistency, as Cronbach's alphas and intraclass correlations between the items of each construct, was tested. A combined assessment of the CFA and items response theory evaluated the construct validity and the item importance for the 29-item version, and a further the reduced 22-item version.RESULTS: In Study 1, the highest Cronbach's alphas were shown for the five constructs in the 69-item version. A higher intraclass correlation was found between the constructs in the 69- and 29-item versions, than between the 69- and the 22-item version. However, a high concordance was found between the constructs in the 29- and 22-item versions in both Study 1 and in Study 2 (0.76-1.00). Testing the goodness-of-fit of the CFA models revealed that the 22-item model fulfilled all the criteria, showing that it had a better factorial structure than the 29-item model. Standard estimations ranged from 0.20 to 0.76 in the 22-item version.CONCLUSION: The reduced 22- and 29-item versions of the 69-item CGPQ showed good model fit, the 22-item version the better of the two. These short versions can be used to assess general parenting without overburdening the respondents.
AB - INTRODUCTION: Many instruments for assessing general parenting have been reported as burdensome and are thus seldom used in studies exploring children's energy balance-related behaviors or weight. This study evaluates the factorial structure of the item-reduced version of the Comprehensive General Parenting Questionnaire (CGPQ), which assesses five constructs of general parenting.METHODS: The study uses data from two cross-sectional studies: Study 1 in 2014 (n = 173) and Study 2 in 2015-16 (n = 805). Parents of children aged three to six answered the CGPQ; in Study 1 the 69-item version, and in Study 2 the 29-item version. The reduction was based on the results of the confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) in Study 1. In both datasets, internal consistency, as Cronbach's alphas and intraclass correlations between the items of each construct, was tested. A combined assessment of the CFA and items response theory evaluated the construct validity and the item importance for the 29-item version, and a further the reduced 22-item version.RESULTS: In Study 1, the highest Cronbach's alphas were shown for the five constructs in the 69-item version. A higher intraclass correlation was found between the constructs in the 69- and 29-item versions, than between the 69- and the 22-item version. However, a high concordance was found between the constructs in the 29- and 22-item versions in both Study 1 and in Study 2 (0.76-1.00). Testing the goodness-of-fit of the CFA models revealed that the 22-item model fulfilled all the criteria, showing that it had a better factorial structure than the 29-item model. Standard estimations ranged from 0.20 to 0.76 in the 22-item version.CONCLUSION: The reduced 22- and 29-item versions of the 69-item CGPQ showed good model fit, the 22-item version the better of the two. These short versions can be used to assess general parenting without overburdening the respondents.
KW - Caregivers
KW - Child
KW - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW - Finland
KW - Humans
KW - Parenting
KW - Psychometrics/methods
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270869
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0270869
M3 - Article
C2 - 35925931
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 17
JO - PLOS ONE
JF - PLOS ONE
IS - 8
M1 - e0270869
ER -