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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development Research
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Parent-infant interaction quality is vital for infant development.
  • Observational methods offer objective assessment of this interaction.
  • Existing tools require evaluation for psychometric soundness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and describe observational tools for parent-infant interaction.
  • To evaluate the psychometric properties of these assessment tools.
  • To guide selection of appropriate tools for research and clinical practice.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic literature search across 20 electronic databases (inception to June 2013).
  • Evaluation of tool validity across five domains: test content, response process, internal structure, relations to other variables, and consequences.
  • Inclusion of 24 tools from 23,961 identified citations.

Main Results:

  • Most included tools demonstrated valid rating procedures, reproducibility, and discriminant validity.
  • Evidence for factorial validity, predictive validity, and standardized norms was generally lacking.
  • The quality of studies supporting the psychometric properties was often credible.

Conclusions:

  • Existing parent-infant interaction observational tools vary in psychometric soundness.
  • Further refinement is necessary, particularly concerning content validity and consequential validity.
  • This review provides synthesized validity evidence to aid tool selection.