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The problem
Intervention: Development and validation of an online questionnaire measuring 10 parenting competencies (including Love and Affection, Safety, and 8 others)
Who it was tested with: 16,986 parents from 133 countries (53.3% from U.S.), diverse in gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, number of children, and education level.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We employed a concurrent study design to assess the validity of the new instrument... To assess criterion validity, we used regression analyses to examine the relationship between questionnaire scores and participants' answers to questions about the quality of their relationship with their children, how highly they rated their own parenting ability, and the happiness, health, and success of their children." The study establishes that the questionnaire reliably measures parenting competencies correlated with parent-reported child outcomes, supporting the concept that parenting can be measured and trained.
The study relies entirely on self-reported parental perception of child outcomes rather than independent measures of actual child well-being. The convenience sampling and predominance of U.S. respondents limit generalizability. The study validates the questionnaire itself but does not prove that the competencies actually cause better child outcomes or that training based on these competencies improves child welfare.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
