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Exploring the Psychometric Properties of the Parent Daily Report - Toddler Version (PDR-T)
Carrie E DePasquale1, Anneke Olson2, Chris D Desjardins3
1Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Insights
The Parent Daily Report - Toddler Version (PDR-T) shows promise as a reliable tool for tracking daily aggressive and noncompliant toddler behaviors. This parent-report measure demonstrates consistency across different groups and over time.
Area of Science:
- Child Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Assessing toddler behavior is crucial for early intervention.
- Parental daily reports offer a feasible method for longitudinal tracking.
- Existing measures may lack brevity or specific focus on daily fluctuations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Parent Daily Report - Toddler Version (PDR-T).
- To examine the reliability and validity of the PDR-T in diverse toddler populations.
- To determine the PDR-T's utility in assessing daily behavioral patterns.
Main Methods:
- Longitudinal data collection from 335 toddlers (18-36 months) over one year.
- Inclusion of internationally adopted, foster care, and community comparison groups.
- Exploratory factor analysis and correlational analyses to assess psychometric properties.
Main Results:
- The PDR-T yielded three factors: aggressive/noncompliant, positive, and distress behaviors.
- The aggressive/noncompliant factor demonstrated good reliability and invariance across time, groups, and partially across genders.
- This factor showed significant correlations with externalizing behavior and inhibitory control, supporting convergent and discriminant validity.
Conclusions:
- The aggressive/noncompliant factor of the PDR-T is a reliable and consistent measure for daily parent reporting.
- The PDR-T shows preliminary support for its utility as a brief tool for assessing daily toddler behavior patterns.
- Further refinement may be needed for the positive and distress behavior factors.
Abstract:
The present study examined the psychometric properties of a brief parent-report daily checklist of toddler behavior (Parent Daily Report - Toddler Version; PDR-T). Data were collected from three groups of 18-36 month-olds who were followed longitudinally for approximately 1 year: 1) internationally adopted children (n = 156), 2) children placed in foster care due to child maltreatment (n = 79), and 3) community comparison children raised by their biological families (n = 80). An exploratory factor analysis of this measure resulted in three factors, measuring aggressive/noncompliant, positive, and distress behaviors. While there were estimation issues with the positive and distress factors, the aggressive/noncompliant factor exhibited invariance across time and groups, and partial invariance between genders. Significant correlations were observed between this factor and measures of externalizing behavior and inhibitory control (r = .26-.56), but not shyness, fearfulness, or negative affect. This provides support for both convergent and discriminant validity. Reliability of this factor was adequate to good across time and group. Results provide preliminary support for the utility, reliability, and consistency of one factor of the PDR-T as an easy parent-report tool to assess daily patterns and changes in child aggressive/noncompliant behavior over time.
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