Evidence of Factorial Validity of Parental Knowledge, Control and Solicitation, and Adolescent Disclosure Scales: When the Ordered Nature of Likert Scales Matters.

摘要: For evaluating monitoring and parent-adolescent communication, a set of scales addressing parental knowledge, control solicitation, adolescent disclosure was proposed by Kerr Stattin (2000). Although these have been widely disseminated, their psychometric proprieties often found to be unsatisfactory, raising questions about validity. The current study examines whether poor properties, which are mainly attributed the relatively conceptual quality items, could caused use less-than-optimal analytical estimation methods. A cross-validation approach is used on sample 1071 adolescents. Maximum likelihood (ML) compared with diagonal weighted least squares (DWLS) method, suitable for Likert scales. results DWLS lead more optimal fit than that obtained using ML estimation. methodology may represent useful option researchers because it corrects unreliability.