Parenting Scale (PS)

The Parenting Scale (PS) is brief measure of parenting behavior and dysfunctional discipline. The PS was originally developed as a rating scale to measure dysfunctional discipline practices in parents of preschool-aged children (18 to 48 months of age) and can be used to identify ‘mistakes’ that may contribute to ineffectual efforts to discipline young children. The PS has also been used with parents of older children (up to 16 years). The PS identifies three stable factors of dysfunctional discipline style as (a) Laxness, (b) Overreactivity, and (c) Verbosity. The Laxness factor (11 items) describes the ways in which parents give in, allow rules to go unenforced, or provide positive consequences for misbehavior. The Overreactivity factor (10 items) reflects mistakes such as displays of anger, meanness, and irritability. The Verbosity factor (7 items) reflects lengthy verbal responses and a reliance on talking even when talking is ineffective.

Within the L-CID Covid-19 waves, only 10 items from the Parenting Scale were used. In the child-report version, 11 items were used in wave 6 of the Early Childhood Cohort, and 22 items (11 about each parent) were used in the Covid-19 wave in the Middle Childhood Cohort.

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Waves
  • Early Childhood Cohort

  • ECC - T4
  •   P1P1
    6.0 - 8.0 years   From 2017-08-30 to 2018-09-28

  • ECC - T5
  •   P1P1
    7.0 - 9.0 years   From 2019-02-06 to 2019-10-19

  • ECC - T6
  •   P1P1 CP1 CP2
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2019-08-29 to 2020-12-23

  • ECC - T6-Covid
  •   P1P1 P2P2
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2020-04-23 to 2020-05-10

  • Middle Childhood Cohort

  • MCC - T3
  •   P1P1
    9.0 - 11.0 years   From 2017-08-27 to 2018-09-30

  • MCC - T4
  •   P1P1
    10.0 - 12.0 years   From 2019-01-30 to 2019-10-24

  • MCC - T5
  •   P1P1
    11.0 - 13.0 years   From 2019-11-04 to 2021-04-28

  • MCC - T5-Covid
  •   P1P1 CP1 CP2 P2P2
    11.0 - 13.0 years   From 2020-04-29 to 2020-05-10

  • MCC - T6
  •   P1P1
    12.0 - 14.0 years   From 2021-06-13 to 2021-10-26

    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual
    Instrument name Parenting Scale (PS)
    Measure name Parenting Scale (PS)
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