Scale examples Flashcards
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How did they define clearly what they wanted to study?
Defined attunement and structure
Why they had feeding, sleeping and soothing as categories in their scale (these are what other scales focus on but not generalised in one scale)
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How did they generate the item pool?
Literature reviews were done on caregiving during infancy
parenting books and online forums
Initially 58 items and removed 10 for redundancy or complexity
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How did they review their item pool?
Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How is this scale better than any other measure?
Mentions that other measures focus on specific infant needs such as feeding, sleeping and soothing and not generally across all domains
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How does it fair with Validity?
Validity:
- Regression analysis to see the effect of parenting principles on parenting practices and infant crying.
- Analysis of perceived control over parenting failures and parenting principles
- Gattis et al (2022): showed correlation between the questionnaire and observed parenting behaviours
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
How does it fair with reliability?
Internal consistency, test-retest reliability and intercorrelations of attunement and structure subscales
Baby Care Questionnaire (Gattis and Winstanley, 2013):
What are their limitations?
Cross-sections = doesn’t show how consistent parenting principles and practices are over time
Only can be used on parents = shared method variance
Self-selected sample = Limited diversity of sample
Early Social Cognition Inventory (Hoicka et al, 2011):
How did they generate their item pool?
- lit review of diverse socio-cog skills from 0-47 months
- Looked at Pedagogy theory to suggest socio-cog skills develop before age 2 and those skills include; face preference in newborns, gaze following, goals, pointing and imitation
Looked at experimental tasks to start generating questions eg. A gaze-following task leads to ‘Does your child follow where you look in order to look at the same thing as you?’
Early Social Cognition Inventory (Hoicka et al, 2011):
Why does the scale do better than any other measure?
Can be measures from 4 months whereas other cognitive measures tend to be measures from around 18 months
Early Social Cognition Inventory (Hoicka et al, 2011):
How does it fair with Reliability?
- Replicated the study in study 2
- test-retest reliability in study 4
- longitudinal stability
- good measurement equivalence/ internal reliability across demographics
Early Social Cognition Inventory (Hoicka et al, 2011):
How does it fair with validity?
Converging validity comparing scores on ESCI and tasks in study 3
Early Social Cognition Inventory (Hoicka et al, 2011):
What are the limitations?
- Limited age range of 4-36 months
- Yes/No questions = limiting response and may cause misinterpretation (Australians scored lower)
- Self-selected sample
Climate Change Hope Scale (Monroe et al, 2018):
How did they generate their item pool?
- Started with 9 items, removed one and added 3 (small starting pool)
- Added third factor after review = willpower and way power
Climate Change Hope Scale (Monroe et al, 2018):
How did they review the item pool?
Got people to circle confusing words
Focus group response-process validity
Gathered panel of professionals for content-based validity
Climate Change Hope Scale (Monroe et al, 2018):
How did they evaluate items?
Exploratory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis
