مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Adaptation of Parenting Stress Index intoTurkish: The Validity and the Reliability Study

Abstract :

The aim of the study is to make Turkish adaptation of Parenting Stress Index (PSI) designed by Abidin (2012). Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to 386 parents in order to determine the relevance between the factors in the original index and Turkish culture. In order to determine validity of the scale, the PSI scale was administered to both the parents who consulted psychiatry services, guidance and research centers and guidance services located in schools due to psychological problems their children experienced and the parents who did not consult any of these services and/or centers. Then t-test was used to examine the difference between the scores taken from the scale by these two groups. The reliability of the index was evaluated by test-retest method given to 55 parents. The results suggest that there are meaningful differences in all the subscales of the index for both groups (p .01). Test-retest reliability coefficient was found to be .78 for PSI Children Domain and .74 for Parents Domain. Test-retest reliability coefficient was .78 for the whole scale. The adaptation study results show that PSI is a reliable and valid assessment instrument which can be used for Turkish culture. PSI can be used to determine parents’ stress levels caused by various sources and to evaluate the effectiveness of educational trainings.