Adaptation of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory to Turkish: A Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

The aim of this study is to adapt Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2.1) in Turkish and to do validity and reliability studies, developed by Bavolek, S. J. & Keene, R. G. in 1999 and revised in 2017 in order to assess the parenting and child rearing attitudes (Assessing Parenting, 2017; Bavolek & Keene, 1999; 2010). The participants of the research consist of 453 people (348 woman, 105 man) over eighteen. Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory has 40 different items presented in a five-point Likert scale from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree. In the study, confirmatory factor analysis, criterionreferenced validity, Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient, the item analyze methods were used to test the validity and reliability of the inventory. Analyses were realized by SPSS 21 package program and Mplus 6.12. As a result of the statistical analyses, it is seen that the research findings supported the reliability and validity of the inventory and Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory is an appropriate measurement tool to determine abusive parenting attitudes.