Longitudinal Measurement Invariance of the Parenting Sense of Competence (PSoC): Evidence to Question Its Use?

• Published in: Child : care, health & development Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. e70030 - n/a
• Main Authors: Gridley, Nicole, Mooney, Kate, Blower, Sarah, Melendez‐Torres, G. J., Berry, Vashti, Bywater, Tracey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2025; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Age differences; Child Rearing; Competence; Confirmatory factor analysis; Efficacy; England; Ethnicity; Factor Analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Factor Structure; Female; Humans; Infant; Infants; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Measurement; Parent Participation; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting - psychology; parenting sense of competence; parents; Parents & parenting; Parents - psychology; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Self Efficacy; Socioeconomic status; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Young Children; England; confirmatory factor analysis; infants; parenting sense of competence; parents

ABSTRACT Background This study investigated the factor structure of the parenting sense of competence (PSoC), a measure of parenting self‐efficacy, in a sample of parents recruited when their infants were under 2 months old. Due to the lack of longitudinal analysis of the PSoC's factor structur...