Parenting Sense of Competence Scale.
PSOC
- What it measures
- Parental self-perceptions of competence on two factors: Satisfaction (affective: anxiety/motivation/frustration) and Efficacy (instrumental: competence, capability, problem-solving)
- Length and format
- 17 (16 in some versions). 6-point agreement (strongly agree - strongly disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple languages incl. Chinese, Dutch, French and others
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Johnston, C., & Mash, E. J. (1989). A measure of parenting satisfaction and efficacy. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 18(2), 167-175.
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