Parental Home Assessment Index: Internal and Inter-Parent Reliability and Construct Validity

Abstract

The Parental Home Assessment Index (PHAI) was developed to obtain parents assessments of the educational/developmental quality of their young children's home environments. The PHAI was composed of 23 home observation items, which each parent rated on a five-point scale. Adequate data were obtained from 73 mothers and 54 fathers of children between 3 and 6 years. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was 0.65 (0.74 standardized) for the fathers and 0.56 (0.65 standardized) for the mothers who responded to the parental survey. The PHAI inter-parent reliability correlation between the 54 pairs of mothers and fathers was .41 (p = .002). The validity of the parental assessment was shown by the correlations between the PHAI scores of mothers and fathers and measures of their children's development. The scale is included.

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