Parent Orientation - Subject Follow-up
This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow06, Follow12, Follow18, Follow24, Follow30, Follow36, Follow48, Follow60, Follow72, Follow84.
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Related Construct
Description of Measure
The Youths Parenting Orientation scale was adapted for this study from Silverberg and Steinberg's (1990) subscale of Adult Role Orientation. The questions are asked only of youth who report having a child. The scale is used to assess the participant's view of his/her role as a parent (e.g., "Fathers/Mothers my age should devote most of their time and energy to rearing their child/children") and the degree to which this role is pervasive in his/her life. The inventory is a 6-item scale that asks participants to rank from 1 to 4 (1= Agree Strongly to 4= Disagree Strongly) the degree that each statement corresponds to their view of parenthood, with higher scores indicating greater parent orientation.
A one-factor CFA model did not produce a satisfactory fit; therefore, measurement errors were allowed to covary in the hope of improving the fit. Two items were allowed to covary: s#pori1R (I talk mostly about my children when with others) and s#pori5R (Satisfaction in life comes from my role as a parent). The following values were produced from the baseline interview as the result of this strategy: alpha: .68; NFI: .90; NNFI: .98; CFI: .99; RMSEA: .03. The alphas produced for the follow-up time-points are as follows: 6 month - .70; 12 month - .67; 18 month - .66; 24 month - .65.
One score is computed from this measure:
- Youth Parenting Orientation [S#PARENT]; mean of six items in the scale. Data must be contained in five of the six items in order to receive a computed mean.
We also have available a marker that indicates whether the subject terminated their parental rights [S#PORIENT_PTERM]
Data Issues
- In early versions of the interview (up to and including version 01.12), this measure was only administered if the subject had at least one living child.
- Beginning with version 01.14, the measure is administered only if the subject has a least one living child, and if they have not terminated their parental rights to that child. This change coincides with the addition of variable S#POrient_PTerm (Has subject terminated parental rights?) in the same version.
- Some cases are missing data for this measure as a result of a bug in the programming code. Cases with this issue are noted with a missing value code of -700.
References
- Silverberg, S., and Steinberg, L. (1990). Psychological well-being of parents with early adolescent children. Developmental Psychology, 26, 658-666.