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Evaluation of a Measure of Parent Behavior: An Item Response Theory Approach to Dimensionality and Informant Agreement

dc.contributor.advisorGarber, Judy
dc.contributor.authorSova, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-19T17:40:45Z
dc.date.available2016-07-19T17:40:45Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-25
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/7596
dc.descriptionHonors thesis completed for PSY-PC 4999. Advisors: Megan Saylor, Judy Garber, Sun-Joo Cho. The paper evaluates the dimensionality and group invariance (across mothers and children) of the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory using item response theory.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory is a widely used three-dimensional psychometric measure to assess parenting behaviors as reported by children and parents. Parent-child dyads tend to report discrepant information about parenting, which has been of great interest to clinical and developmental psychologists, as well as psychometricians. Researchers agree that construct disagreement within families can be meaningful, though measurement error and interpretative limitations can obscure this information. Using item response theory (IRT), this paper produced a shortened two-dimensional version of the CPRBI for a study of parent-child disagreement, which then was analyzed for dimensionality and discrepant item functioning between children and parents in a sample of sixth graders and their mothers. Methods include exploratory factor analysis, principal components analysis, unidimensional and multidimensional item response modeling, and differential item functioning. The results propose that CRPBI is not group invariant across mothers and children and that the dimensionality of the CRPBI might vary across different populations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVanderbilt Universityen_US
dc.subjectItem Response Theoryen_US
dc.subjectIRTen_US
dc.subjectparenting measureen_US
dc.subjectCRPBIen_US
dc.subjectdimensionalityen_US
dc.subjectinformant agreementen_US
dc.subjectChildren's Report of Parent Behavior Inventoryen_US
dc.subjectgroup invarianceen_US
dc.subjectglobal DIFen_US
dc.subject.lcshPsychology -- Quantitative researchen_US
dc.subject.lcshParenting -- Evaluationen_US
dc.subject.lcshItem response theoryen_US
dc.subject.lcshParent and childen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of a Measure of Parent Behavior: An Item Response Theory Approach to Dimensionality and Informant Agreementen_US
dc.title.alternativeIRT ANALYSIS OF THE CRPBIen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.collegePeabody Collegeen_US
dc.description.schoolVanderbilt Universityen_US
dc.description.departmentPsychology and Human Developmenten_US


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