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Mairead Cardamone-Breen1, Sophie Brasacchio1, Anna Smout1
1Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Parents can now measure their confidence in managing adolescent school refusal with the new Parental Self-Efficacy to Respond to School Refusal Scale (PSES-SR). This validated tool helps identify intervention targets for preventing and treating school refusal.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Parenting Interventions
Background:
- Parental involvement is crucial for preventing and treating school refusal in adolescents.
- Parental self-efficacy (PSE) is essential for parents to implement effective strategies.
- A validated measure to assess PSE for school refusal was previously lacking.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and validate the Parental Self-Efficacy to Respond to School Refusal Scale (PSES-SR).
- To provide a reliable tool for assessing parental confidence in managing school refusal.
Main Methods:
- Scale items were derived from expert-consensus-based parenting guidelines.
- The PSES-SR was administered to two samples of Australian parents of adolescents (aged 11-18 years).
- Psychometric properties were evaluated using statistical analyses and correlation with other measures.
Main Results:
- The 15-item PSES-SR demonstrated strong internal consistency and a good single-factor model fit.
- The scale showed significant correlations with measures of PSE, parenting, adolescent mental health, and school refusal.
- The PSES-SR effectively measures parental self-efficacy related to school refusal behaviors.
Conclusions:
- The PSES-SR is a psychometrically sound measure for assessing parental self-efficacy in responding to school refusal.
- Clinically, the PSES-SR can identify parental confidence levels and inform targeted interventions.
- The scale can serve as a screening or outcome measure for school refusal prevention and treatment programs.
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