Preliminary development and psychometrics characteristics of a multidimensional measure of Parental Psychological Control: The Inventory of Parental Psychological Control (IPPC)

Titolo Rivista MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Autori/Curatori Francesca Cuzzocrea, Sebastiano Costa, Marco Cannavò, Maria Cristina Gugliandolo
Anno di pubblicazione 2020 Fascicolo 2020/2
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 30 P. 55-84 Dimensione file 411 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2020-002004
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Although the broad research regarding parental psychological control, instruments to assess the multidimensionality of the construct are lacking. The aim of the present study was to de-velop multidimensional measure of parental psychological control. In the first study, item se-lection of the new Inventory of Parental Psychological Control (IPPC) was conducted using a set of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a sample of 209 emerging adults. The second study replicated the results by using different sets of analyses and independent sample of 400 emerging adults. In both studies, reliability and concurrent validity were also assessed. Re-sults suggested that both forms of IPPC are parallel with the theoretical assumptions and are psychometrically robust. IPPC can be used to assess multidimensionality of the construct.

Nonostante esista un’ampia letteratuta circa il controllo psicologico genitoriale, mancano strumenti multidimensionali per la sua valutazione. Scopo di questo studio è stato lo sviluppo di uno strumento multidimensionale per la valutazione del controllo psicologico genitoriale. Nel primo studio, la selezione degli item del nuovo Parental Psychological Control (IPPC) è avvenuta tramite una serie di analisi fattoriali confermative (CFA) in un campione composto da 209 soggetti in adultità emergente. Il secondo studio ha replicato i risultati con ulteriori analisi in un campione indipendente, composto da 400 soggetti. In entrambi gli studi sono state effettuate analisi di affidabilità e di validita convergente. I risultati suggeriscono che en-trambe le versioni del IPPC sono in linea con gli assunti teorici e sono forti da un punto di vista psicometrico. Il test IPPC può essere usato per una valutazione multidimensionale del costrutto.

Keywords:Controllo psicologico genitoriale; supporto all’autonomia; bisogni psicologici di base; depression; autostima

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Francesca Cuzzocrea, Sebastiano Costa, Marco Cannavò, Maria Cristina Gugliandolo, Preliminary development and psychometrics characteristics of a multidimensional measure of Parental Psychological Control: The Inventory of Parental Psychological Control (IPPC) in "MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA" 2/2020, pp 55-84, DOI: 10.3280/MAL2020-002004