Inventory of Parent Experiences
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Abstract
The Inventory of Parent Experiences is a 38-item measure
that explores a parent's social support network and assesses satisfaction
with parenting. The Inventory has two parts: Social Support and
Parenting Satisfaction.
- The Social Support items characterize the parent's support network,
including: size of the network, types of network members, closeness
of the parent's relationships, quality and stability of the spousal/partner
relationship, helpfulness of network members, effect of the parent's
job on family life, and frequency of the parent's own social opportunities.
- The Parenting Satisfaction items assess satisfaction with the
parent's social life, support network, and "life situation,"
including: the parent's amount of social contact, amount of household
responsibility, parenting chores, personal relationships, availability
of parenting support, the effect of employment on other parts
of the parent's life, and the parent's life in general.
The Parenting Satisfaction portion has four subscales: Community
Satisfaction, Friendship Satisfaction, Family Satisfaction, and
Parental Role Satisfaction. Each subscale score is calculated as
the mean of responses. The Social Support portion of the Inventory
was not scored.
T-tests of means for three of the subscales on the Parenting Satisfaction
portion show a significant difference between the normative and
high-risk control groups. However, each subscale includes only a
small number of items and most of the scales have modest reliability.
Keywords: Social Support Network, Family Relations, Parenting Skills,
Parental Satisfaction, Community Involvement, Work Situation.
Administration History
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19 November 2002
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