The Updating for Study of Parental Self Efficacy Scale Validity and Reliabilitiy

The aim of this study is to update Turkish Version of Parental Self-Efficacy Instrument for Children with Disabilities - PSICD which was developed by Guimond, Moore, Aier, Maxon, and Diken (2005, and to identify its psychometric features (validity and reliability). In the study, the data was collected from 219 parents who have children with high and medium degree mental retardation. The participants were consisted of 151 mothers (%68.9), 63 fathers (%29.7), 3 other caretakers (%1.4). As a result of validity and reliability studies, it was seen that the instrument measured the feature, which was asked to measure, as one-dimensional. It was found that the instrument was valid and reliable for identifying of parental self-efficacy levels of parents who have children with high and medium degree mental retardation.