Elaboração e validação da escala de habilidades sociais de pais

Abstract

The present study intended to elaborate a Scale of Parental Skills, aggregating evidences of validity and precision. The article had the contribution over than 200 people with an average age of 39.09 (DP= 0.80).Most of the contributors were female (55%) from João Pessoa (PB), married (62.3%) and (47.4%) with graduation complete in higher education. For the data mining, a Parental Skills diagram and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied.The statistical software SPSS (21 st version) was used to characterize a sample, performing correlations and the test t Student, and software Factor 9.2 to investigate the dimensionality of CPD-S along the Hull Comparative Fit Index method in distinction to an exploratory factorial analysis Unweighted Least Squares (ULS), were calculated the Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald Omega.The results indicated a one-way solution, resulting in a Global Fit Index (GFI) = 0.96. The retained factor called Parental Skills explained 37.74% of the total variance, using 16 items, Cronbach's alpha resulted 0.88 and McDonald's omega 0.89. Correlating parental skills according to the gender of the parents, no significant differences were found. It was also verified that the parental skills presented a positive and significant correlation with the Good Concept of the self-assessment that parents made by judging their parenting performance. It is concluded that parents' abilities are fundamental to the development and maintenance of healthy relationships with their children.