Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents

Straus, Murray A.; Hamby, Sherry; Finkelhor, David; Moore, David W.; Runyan, Desmond K.

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(97)00174-9

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“…The parenting quality composite includes four variables: two subscales from the Children’s Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI (37, 38), rejection (10 items; alpha=.72) and consistent discipline (8 items; alpha= .83) and two subscales of the Conflict Tactics Scale – Parent Child version II (CTSPC-II) (39), non-violent discipline (4 items; alpha = .76) and psychological aggression (5 items; alpha .77).…”

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Mental Health of Children of Low-Income Depressed Mothers: Influences of Parenting, Family Environment, and Raters

Riley¹,

Coiro²,

Broitman³

et al. 2009

Psychiatric Services

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Purpose To extend understanding of the effects of maternal depression on children to low-income and minority families; to apply advanced analytic methods to incorporate the reports of mothers, fathers, and teachers on the emotional and behavior problems and adaptive skills of 4–10 year old urban children; and to examine parenting quality and family environment as possible explanations of high rates of problems among children whose mothers have depression compared to those whose mothers are not depressed. Methods Mothers who participated either had major depressive disorder (n=84) or did not (n=49). They were predominantly African-American or Latino and lived in low-income, urban communities. Mothers, fathers, and teachers reported on children’s emotional, behavioral and adaptive functioning. Parenting behavior and family stress were examined as potential mediators and generalized estimating equations (GEE) were employed to test mediation and to account for discrepancies in reports by different raters. Results By mother, father and teacher reports, children of depressed mothers had significantly poorer adaptive skills than children of sociodemographically-similar non-depressed mothers; and they had more emotional/behavior problems according to mothers and fathers. The quality of mothers’ parenting mediated these associations, but quality of the family environment did not. Conclusions This study extends the literature on the effects of maternal depression to low-income, minority families, and demonstrates that mothers, fathers and teachers observe worse functioning in children of depressed mothers than those of non-depressed mothers, although their perspectives vary somewhat. The impact of maternal depression suggests the importance of developing and funding services to address the needs of affected families.

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Mental Health of Children of Low-Income Depressed Mothers: Influences of Parenting, Family Environment, and Raters

Riley¹,

Coiro²,

Broitman³

et al. 2009

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“…For example, in the CCA for the Confl ict Tactics Scales: Parent-Child, 52 the item regarding the act of "slapping/punching the child on the face, head, or ears" was found to be much more related to acts of physical violence than to corporal punishment, although the latter was the dimension within which the authors of the instrument placed the item. 60,61 It remains to be determined whether the measurement equivalence was effectively compromised because of this discrepancy in the connotative meaning between the two cultures, or whether the inadequacy was in the instrument originally proposed. In this latter case, the item in question would pertain to the dimension of physical violence, independent of the culture in question.…”

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Operacionalização de adaptação transcultural de instrumentos de aferição usados em epidemiologia

2007

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The objective of the article was to offer an operational framework to assess cross cultural adaptation processes of instruments developed in other linguistic, social and cultural contexts. It covers the need for using robust measurement tools; the importance of 'universal' instruments that permit cross cultural fi ne-tuning; and stresses the need for adapting existent instruments rather than developing new ones. Existing controversies and proposals for different procedures in current literature are reviewed and a model for adapting instruments is presented. This synthesis covers the operational steps involved in evaluating concepts, semantic and operational items, and presents psychometric analysis guidelines that underlay an evaluation of measurement equivalence. Finally, the need for adequately controlling the quality of information presented in epidemiological studies, including a meticulous cross-cultural adaptation of research agendas, is reinforced.

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“…The Reliability Paradox of the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Corporal Punishment subscale The Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Corporal Punishment subscale (CTS-PC; Straus, Hamby, Finkelhor, Moore, & Runyan, 1998) is among the most widely used measures of corporal punishment, defined as physical discipline (e.g., spanking and slapping) that falls short of physical abuse. The scale exhibited interparental agreement, suggesting its convergent validity, in Lee et al (2012).…”

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“…The 6-item Corporal Punishment subscale of the CTS-PC (Straus et al, 1998) includes the following items: (1) spank on bottom with hand, (2) slap on hand, arm or leg, (3) hit on bottom with object, (4) slap on face, head or ears, (5) pinch, and (6) …”

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The reliability paradox of the parent–child conflict tactics corporal punishment subscale.

Lorber¹

2018

Journal of Family Psychology

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In the present investigation we consider and explain an apparent paradox in the measurement of corporal punishment with the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS-PC): How can it have poor internal consistency and still be reliable? The CTS-PC was administered to a community sample of 453 opposite sex couples who were parents of 3-to 7-year-old children. Internal consistency was marginal, yet item response theory analyses revealed that reliability rose sharply with increasing corporal punishment, exceeding .80 in the upper ranges of the construct. The results suggest that the CTS-PC Corporal Punishment subscale reliably discriminates among parents who report average to high corporal punishment (64% of mothers and 56% of fathers in the present sample), despite low overall internal consistency. These results have straightforward implications for the use and reporting of the scale.

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Identification of Child Maltreatment With the Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and Psychometric Data for a National Sample of American Parents

Cited by 2,076 publications

References 29 publications

Mental Health of Children of Low-Income Depressed Mothers: Influences of Parenting, Family Environment, and Raters

Mental Health of Children of Low-Income Depressed Mothers: Influences of Parenting, Family Environment, and Raters

Operacionalização de adaptação transcultural de instrumentos de aferição usados em epidemiologia

The reliability paradox of the parent–child conflict tactics corporal punishment subscale.

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