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The Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a well studied assessment of parenting practices for school-age children, especially in relation to child externalizing behaviors. Given the developmental changes between school-age children and adolescents and subsequent changes to parenting approaches during that time, the utility of a public-accessed measure to span across a broad age range is of high clinical and empirical importance. This study investigated the psychometric properties of the APQ in a community sample of 376 parents of adolescents. In an Exploratory Factor Analysis the data suggested a 4-factor solution similar in composition to the original 5-factor model. Proposed factors for the APQ when given to parents of adolescents included Positive and Involved Parenting, Parental Monitoring, Discipline Practices, and Discipline Process.
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Zlomke, K.R., Lamport, D., Bauman, S. et al. Parenting Adolescents: Examining the Factor Structure of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire for Adolescents. J Child Fam Stud 23, 1484–1490 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-013-9803-5
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