INFLUENCE OF PARENTING STYLE ON BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF CHILD'S PERSONALITY
The aim of the study was to adapt the Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire for the use in Russian. The original Questionnaire was developed to evaluate parenting styles in 1995. In review of studies that had applied the instrument there was determined the influence of parents and their parenting styles on children’s behavior. The Russian version of the Questionnaire was implemented to 770 parents and guardians and the validity and reliability of the scales were tested. The analysis of convergent and criterion-related validity allowed us to evaluate the version as corresponding to theoretical views on parenting styles. To analyze the reliability internal consistency and test-retest stability were assessed. Cronbach’s alpha of authoritative domain was 0,84, authoritarian domain 0,75, and permissive domain 0,62. Test-retest reliability was assessed by comparing two reports of 472 parents, obtained with an average interval of 1 year. Test-retest reliability of authoritative domain was 0,57, authoritarian domain 0,55, and permissive domain 0,45 (p <0,000001). The result indicates that the Russian version of the Questionnaire has acceptable validity and reliability.