Development and psychometric evaluation of the Brief Parenting Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a paucity of brief self-report parenting measures validated for use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We developed the Brief Parenting Questionnaire (BPQ), a 24-item self-report measure for use with parents of children ages 3-12.

Objective

We describe the development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the BPQ, which was designed to include two subscales: warm and responsive parenting (WRP) and harsh parenting (HP).

Participants and setting

The sample included an equal number of male and female caregivers (n = 480) from 240 families in North Lebanon that took part in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Caregiver Support Intervention. Study participants were primarily Syrian (95.2%); others were Lebanese (4.2%) and Pal

SUBMITTER: Miller KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780980 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature