Parents’ and Adolescents’ Perspectives on Parenting: Evaluating Conceptual Structure, Measurement Invariance, and Criterion Validity

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Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 473-489

  Janssens, Annelies ^a   Goossens, Luc ^a   Van Den Noortgate, Wim ^a   Colpin, Hilde ^a   Verschueren, Karine ^a   Van Leeuwen, Karla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

early adolescence; measurement invariance; multiple perspectives; parenting; problem behavior; questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTHER; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84937212792     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191114550477     Document Type: Article

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