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Table 7 Targeting and reliability of the Parental Stress and Lack of Parental Satisfaction subscales in the separate behaviour and ordinary samples

From: The Parental Stress Scale revisited: Rasch-based construct validity for Danish parents of children 2–18 years old with and without behavioral problems

 

Theta

Score

Subscales, Samples and Parent subgroupsa (n)

Target

Mean

TI mean

TI max

TI Target index

RMSE mean

RMSE min

RMSE target index

Target

Mean

Mean SEM

r

Parental Stress subscale

Ordinary sample

 Child age 2–5 years (174)

−.95

−.03

1.318

1.465

.900

.865

.826

.955

3.45

4.75

1.14

.74

 Child age 6–10 years (201)

−.19

−.50

1.322

1.382

.956

.861

.851

.988

4.63

4.18

1.15

.70

 Child age 11–18 years (196)

.07

−.1.25

1.196

1.341

.892

.884

.863

.977

5.02

3.35

1.09

.72

Behavior sample

 Secondary edu or less (148)

−.30

.36

1.286

1.556

.826

.892

.802

.899

4.21

5.10

1.13

.71

 Tertiary edu (86)

−.58

.86

1.124

1.341

.839

.930

.864

.929

3.50

5.21

1.06

.72

Lack of Parental Satisfaction subscale

 Ordinary sample (571)

−.92

−3.91

.430

1.706

.252

1.320

.766

.580

3.08

.69

.60

.55

 Behavior sample (234)

.32

−3.14

.518

1.367

.379

1.289

.855

.663

3.85

.92

.65

.71

  1. Notes. TI Test information, RMSE The root mean squared error of the estimated theta score, SEM The standard error of measurement of the observed score, r reliability, Edu Education
  2. aTargeting and reliability is provided for groups defined by DIF variables
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