Adaptation and Validation of a Child-Reported Measure of Parental School Involvement

Helena Mocho, Cátia Martins (), Elias Ratinho and Cristina Nunes
Additional contact information
Helena Mocho: University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Cátia Martins: University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Elias Ratinho: University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Cristina Nunes: University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal

Social Sciences, 2025, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: Parental school involvement (PSI) is an important contributor to children’s academic and overall positive development. Such activities as discussing schoolwork and tracking progress can boost children’s motivation and achievements. Although the multifaceted nature of PSI is widely recognized, there are limited reliable measures that comprehensively capture all its dimensions, particularly for children and adolescents. This study aims to develop a measure for assessing children and adolescents’ perceptions of parental involvement based on parent- and teacher-validated self-report measures—the Parental School Involvement Questionnaire—Children’s version (PSIQ-CV). A total of 537 children and adolescents ( M Age = 9.64, SD Age = 2.43), mainly female (52.8%), from the south of Portugal participated in this study. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA, n = 150) and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA, n = 387) were carried out. The EFA indicated a three-factor solution (i.e., support in learning activities, parent–school communication, and supervision), supported by the CFA, with good quality-of-fit indices ( χ 2 = 225; df = 101; χ 2 /df = 2.23; CFI = 0.91; TLI = 0.89; RMSEA = 0.060 [CI: 0.049–0.070]). Our data confirmed that the PSIQ-CV has robust psychometric properties, with acceptable reliability and validity. The PSIQ-CV can be considered a relevant and valid tool for measuring the perception of parental school involvement among children and adolescents, in line with Epstein’s theoretical model, and useful for both researchers and practitioners.

Keywords: assessment; children’s perception; parental school involvement; psychometric evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/8/475/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/8/475/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:14:y:2025:i:8:p:475-:d:1713543

Access Statistics for this article

Social Sciences is currently edited by Ms. Yvonne Chu

More articles in Social Sciences from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().