Evaluation of a Modified Bronfenbrenner Questionnaire Assessing Children's Perceptions of Teachers' Behaviors

Abstract

A modification of the Bronfenbrenner Parent Behavior Questionnaire was evaluated as a research technique for assessing children's perceptions of how their teachers treat them. The questionnaire was administered to 78 male and 61 female children in Grades 4 to 6. Test-retest reliabilities ranged from .69 for the power variable to .85 for the expressive rejection variable. Three components of teachers' behavior were derived from a varimax rotational principal-component analysis: “loving,” “punishing,” and “demanding.” These data complement and corroborate Siegelman's principal-component analysis of the Bronfenbrenner Parent Behavior Questionnaire.