PCIT Reliability
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Abstract
The Parent-Child Interaction Task (PCIT) was administered
to the child and the parent as part of the summer interview in the
child's home. Two measures are included in the PCIT: the Behavioral
Coding System (BCS; Forehand & McMahon, 1981) and the Interaction
Ratings Scale (Crnic and Greenberg, 1990). The PCIT is comprised
of four separate segments, which occur in the following sequence:
Child's Game, Parent's Game, Lego Task, and Clean-Up. The BCS is
used by the child interviewer to record both parent behaviors and
child behaviors during each task; the amount of time for each task
and the total time are also recorded and used in the scoring of
the subscales. The child interviewer then completes the IRS, which
is a set of 16 global ratings of the mother and child with respect
to gratification, sensitivity, and involvement, after each of the
4 tasks that the parent and child complete together.
Separate methods were used for the BCS and IRS to calculate the
reliability checks.
Analysts should note that distribution properties for these scores
might be nonnormal due to the small sample sizes involved and the
nature of the variable construction. With that in mind, Positive
Attention % Agreement and Number of Items with Reliability of Zero
were negatively skewed for both the normative and control samples.
One score, Sum of Reliability Ratings, was positively skewed for
both samples.
Another approach to reliability would have been to calculate the
inter-class correlations for these two measures. However, raw data
for the lead observer were not available to perform these calculations.
Keywords: Parent Child Communication, Punishment, Positive Parenting,
Compliance, Behavior Patterns
Administration History
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years administered.
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08 April 2003
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