0575887 - SOÚ 2024 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Klímová Chaloupková, Jana - Pospíšilová, Kristýna
Towards a conceptualisation of intensive parenting norms: Testing exact and approximate measurement invariance across social and country contexts.
Journal of Family Research. Roč. 35, September (2023), s. 515-534. E-ISSN 2699-2337
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA21-18014S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : intensive parenting * measurement invariance * alignment optimization * European Social Survey * cross-national comparison * gender * education
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 2.9, year: 2023 ; AIS: 0.987, rok: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
Result website:
https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/926DOI: https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-926

Using data from the European Social Survey Cross-national Online Survey panel (2017) administered in Estonia, Slovenia, and Great Britain, we examine the exact and approximate measurement invariance of intensive parenting norms across these country contexts as well as across gender, education, and parental status. We apply multi-group confirmatory factor analysis and alignment optimization. Due to a poor fit of the previously suggested four-factor model of intensive parenting norms, a revised two-factor model with stimulation and child-centred dimensions was proposed. The two-factor model attained scalar invariance between educational groups and between parents of children aged under 12 years and others, however, only metric invariance was achieved among countries, gender, and parental status. The alignment optimization results suggest that the reduced scale is approximately invariant across all examined groups. This study highlights that the MI of parenting norms should not just be assumed but tested.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0345592