The System for Coding Interactions and Family Functioning (SCIFF) in low-income and urban adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Reliable, brief, and cost-effective methods to assess parenting are critical for advancing etiological research and translational efforts within parenting science. In the current study, we adapted the System for Coding Interactions and Family Functioning (SCIFF) for use among a sample of mostly racial minority adolescents aged 15 years old, growing up in a low-income urban setting. A multiethnic team coded videotapes of a family interaction task designed to elicit conflict. First, we assessed the reliability of SCIFF codes (N = 187; 54% female; 77% African American). Second, we tested whether SCIFF codes assessing harsh parenting, positive parenting, dyadic conflict, and dyadic closeness converged with parent-child reports of the same constructs. Third we explored links between observed ha

SUBMITTER: Waller R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243344 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature