This review examines the potential roles of parental self-efficacy (PSE) in parent and child
adjustment and the role of parental cognitions in understanding behaviors and emotions …

Appreciation for cognitive factors associated with parental competence and satisfaction is
increasingly evident in recent developmental research. In particular, parental self-efficacy …

Response bias shows up in many fields of behavioural and healthcare research where self-
reported data are used. We demonstrate how to use stochastic frontier estimation (SFE) to …

The authors reviewed scores of primary prevention programs to identify preventive
interventions that had undergone quasi-experimental or randomized trials and been found …

This article illustrates the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures with latent
variables to analyze data from experimental studies. These procedures allow the researcher …

Feelings of competency in the parental role, termed parenting self‐efficacy, have been
associated with well‐being and positive parenting outcomes. Given the unique stresses …

This article describes the initial validation and evaluation of the cross-cultural and cross-
language equivalence of the Parenting Self-Agency Measure (PSAM) with a sample of …

The Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales (IFIRS; Melby, RD Conger et al., 1998) is a global
or macrolevel observational coding system designed to measure behavioral and emotional …

After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have
turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The …

This study examined the long-term substance use outcomes of 2 brief interventions
designed for general population families of young adolescents. Thirty-three public schools …