Relationship between temperament, parenting style and resilience of children aged 3-5 years / 浙江大学学报·医学版

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the developmental characteristics of resilience in children aged 3-5, and to explore the relationship between temperament, parenting style and resilience.@*METHODS@#A total of 570 preschoolers aged 3-5 years in Hangzhou participated in this study. The children's teachers completed the assessment of the resilience scale of DECA-P2 (Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers Second Edition); the children's parents completed assessment of temperament questionnaire CBQ (Children's Behavior Questionnaire) and parenting style questionnaire PSDQ (Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire).@*RESULTS@#Totally 432 valid questionnaires were retrieved with a recovery rate of 75.79%. The levels of initiative and self-regulation of 5-y children were higher than those of children aged 3 or 4 (all <0.01); the level of attachment/relationship of 5-y children was higher than that of children aged 4 (<0.01); the levels of initiative and self-regulation of girls were higher than those of boys (<0.05 or <0.01). The negative affect dimension of temperament was negatively correlated with resilience (all <0.05), while the effortful control and authoritative parenting styles were positively correlated with resilience (all <0.05). The negative affect and effortful control were able to partially predict resilience of children through authoritative parenting style (mediating effect were-0.0143 and 0.0363).@*CONCLUSIONS@#Preschoolers aged 3-5 years with different age and gender show differences in resilience, and parenting styles may play a mediating effect between temperament and resilience.

Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers Second Edition / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:To revise the Chinese version of Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschool-ers,Second Edition (DECA-P2 ),and assess its validity and reliability.Methods:Totally 608 children aged 3 -5 years were rated by their teachers with the Chinese version of DECA-P2 and two criterion scales,which included the Chinese version of Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale,and Social Competence and Behavior Evalua-tion Scale-30.Data of 570 were valid.After identifying valid items using item analysis,exploratory factor analysis was performed for half of all samples.Confirmatory factor analysis was also conducted with another half samples.Moreover,the present study tested criterion-related validity,internal consistency reliability and split-half re-liability of the Chinese version of DECA-P2.Results:Through the exploratory factor analysis,the obtained structure of protective factors was the same as the original scale,accounting for 59.82%of the variance.The results of con-firmatory factor analysis achieved the standard of psychometrics (χ2/df=2.50,RMESA=0.07,CFI=0.91,IFI=0.91).Generally,each subscale had significant correlation with the two criterion scales (r=-0.21 ~0.80). Be-sides,the Cronbach αcoefficients of all subscales were between 0.80 and 0.93,and the split-half reliabilities of them were between 0.79 and 0.89.Conclusion:The Chinese version of DECA-P2 has acceptable psychometric quality and can be applied to evaluate resilience for children aged from 3 to 5 years in China.

Parents' attitude inventory for handicapped children learning in regular class / 中国康复理论与实践

@# ObjectiveTo workout a scale of parents' attitude towards handicapped children learning in regular class.MethodsQuestionnaire on the parents' attitude toward learning in regular class was designed and administered to 240 parents of handicapped children and 480 parents of normal children.ResultsThe questionnaire was consisted of 34 valid items and proved to be a reliable and valid instrument.ConclusionThis questionnaire is an innovation on testing attribute to some limitation, but the normal formulation has to be depended on future study.

Parents' attitude toward children with disabilities learning in regular class / 中国康复理论与实践

@#Objective To investigate the parents' attitude toward the handicapped children learning in regular class.MethodsThe Questionnaire of the Parents' Attitude Toward Learning in Regular Class was used to measure the attitude of 240 parents of handicapped children and 480 of normal children. ResultsThe attitude of parents of handicapped children was much more positive than that of parents of normal children. The attitude of parents of deaf children is much more positive than that of parents of mental retarded (MR) children. The attitude of parents of normal children who were studying with the deaf children was much more positive than that of parents of normal children who were studying with the MR children. There was no significant difference among parents of different education levels, occupation and sex. ConclusionHandicapped children learning in regular class need more attention from parents.