Development and validation of the adolescents' perceptions of parental involvement scale in China.

Authors

Xuerong Liu, Zheng Gong, Wei Li, Jingyu Lei, Xiaodi Han, Yaozhi Wang, Xueqian Wang, Liping Shi, Qiongzhi Zhang, Qianyu Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zhanghong Li, Jianhong Liu, Jie Gong, Zhiyi Chen, Zhengzhi Feng

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Frontiers in psychology. Volume 16. Pages 1529173. Epub May 14, 2025.

Abstract

Given the increasing academic pressures associated with intensified social competition, the role of parental involvement in education has emerged as a pivotal research area, especially within the context of Chinese culture. However, there remains a need to further delineate the characteristic dimensions of parental involvement and to develop appropriate measurement tools to quantify such involvements. By the perspective from adolescents' reports, this study proposed a psychometric and theoretical framework for understanding Chinese adolescents' perceptions to their parental involvement.
We adopted a mixed-methods approach across three studies. In Study 1, we conducted structural interviews with adolescents aged 12 to 18, applying grounded theory to analyze their perceptions of parental involvement. Study 2 involved the creation and refinement of a measurement questionnaire through exploratory factor analysis. Study 3 validated these dimensions through confirmatory factor analysis and criterion-related validity tests on national samples.
Study 1 identified four preliminary characteristic dimensions of perceived parental involvement: emotional involvement, academic involvement, life involvement, and social involvement. In Study 2, we developed a four-dimensional 21-item questionnaire showing high conceptional validity. Study 3 demonstrated strong reliability and construct validity for this questionnaire across different samples.
This research provides a new understanding of the characteristic dimensions of adolescents' perceptions of parental involvement and introduces an effective measurement tool.

PMID:
40438762
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 29 May 2025.

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