Responses from 612 Parent Success Indicators (PSI) by parents and children were subjected to factor analysis. Data were factor analyzed to determine if the underlying factor structure of the instrument fit the hypothesized dimensions suggested by the position of 60 items on six subscales. The principal components extraction analysis produced 13 factors with prerotation eigenvalues greater than 1.0. A principal component solution set at six factors yielded the best fit, accounting for 49.6% of the variance. The pattern of item-to-factor correlation suggested that the 60 items tended to fit the hypothesized pattern of subscales.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. (1990). Turning points: Youth for the 21st century. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
2.
Cattell, R. (1966). The scree test for the number of factors. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1, 245-276.
3.
Child, D. (1970). The essentials of factor analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
4.
Cobb, N. (1992). Adolescence: Continuity, change, and diversity. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
5.
Comrey, A. (1978). Common methodological problems in factor analytic studies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 648-659.
6.
Furstenburg, F , & Cherlin, A. (1991). Divided families: What happens to children when parents part. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
7.
Gorsuch, R. L. (1974). Factor analysis. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.
8.
Howard, K. , & Cartwright, D. S. (1962). An empirical note on the communality problem in factor analysis. Psychological Reports, 10, 797.
9.
Strom, R. (1987). Parent and child evaluation of family development. International Journal of Experimental Research in Education, 24, 290-304.
10.
Strom, R. , Bernard, H., & Strom, S. (1989). Human development and learning. New York: Human Sciences Press.
11.
Strom, R. , Collinsworth, P., & Strom, S. (1994). Parent competence in families with gifted children. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 18(1), 39-54.
12.
Strom, R. , Collinsworth, P., Strom, S., & Griswold, D. (1990). Perceptions of parent success by Black mothers and their preadolescent children. Journal of Negro Education, 59, 611-622.
