SynthesisAssessment2023
A Systematic Review of Parenting Scales Measurement Invariance/ Equivalence of by Race and Ethnicity: Recommendations for Inclusive Parenting Research.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parenting Measures and Their Psychometrics in LGBTQIA+ Families: A Systematic Review.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Pooled it
- Advantages in Bayesian Approaches to Confirmatory Factor Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Rethinking parenting: A function-based framework for understanding caregiving across contexts.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- A Computerized Adaptive Test for the Knowledge of Effective Parenting Test-Internalizing Module: Instrument Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a New Measure of Stepparent-Adolescent Interaction.Family transitions (Philadelphia, Penn.) · 2026Article
- Measurement Invariance of the Regulation of Emotions in Parenting Scale (REPS): Psychometric Validation Across Ethnoracial Groups.Assessment · 2025Article
- Factor structure of food and physical activity parenting practices among US fathers by ethnicity and survey language: a cross sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Psychometric Evaluation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale in LGBTQIA+ Parents.Assessment · 2025Article
- Measuring Parental School Involvement: A Systematic Review.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
- Multidimensional Scale of Motives for Postponing Parenthood (MSMPP-18): Development, factorial structure and psychometric properties.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Revision of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting Scale (MAPS) in an ethnoracially diverse national sample.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Cultural Adaptation of Child Discipline Measures for Puerto Rican Mothers: Enhancing the Cultural Sensitivity of Parenting Assessments.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Different Instruments, Same Content? A Systematic Comparison of Child Maltreatment and Harsh Parenting Instruments.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Review
- Associations Between Early Life Adversity and Youth Psychobiological Outcomes: Dimensional and Person-Centered Approaches.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Assessing parenting in racially and ethnically diverse families: A lack of measurement equivalence.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- Measurement invariance in the assessment of parenting practices: A cross-cultural comparison of China and the United States.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The limited inclusion of racial/ethnic minorities in the development and validation of parenting measures limits our understanding of whether parenting constructs are valid in racial and ethnic minorities. Tests of measurement invariance/equivalence (MI/E) of parenting measures can help evaluate the validity of parenting constructs among racial/ethnic minorities. This systematic review summarized studies on MI/E of parenting constructs by race/ethnicity and evaluated the strength of the evidence. A literature search was conducted using various databases and references to retrieve studies from the United States. Indeed, 10 studies were identified that tested for MI/E of eight parenting scales by race/ethnicity. Only one scale showed moderate evidence of MI/E, five showed weak evidence of MI/E, and two showed no evidence of MI/E. Most studies (80%) used factor analytic methods to test for MI/E, but only two studies (20%) examined all levels of invariance. These findings show that differences exist in how racial/ethnic minorities perceive parenting constructs. Further research is needed to develop more inclusive parenting measures, to protect against the ways in which biased measures may pathologize or misrepresent parenting practices among racial/ethnic minorities.
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