Family socialization practices: factor confirmation of the portuguese versión of a scale for their measurement

Abstract

The ESPA29 parental socialization scale allows for the measuring of four parental styles (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, and negligent), considering the parents? use of different socialization practices considered in this instrument, which are grouped into two factors or two independent dimensions of paternal conduct (acceptance/involvement and strictness/imposition). The objective of this study was to analyze the factorial structure of the Brazilian version of the Scale and the factorial congruence with the Spanish normalization using a sample of 1,184 Brazilian adolescents. Furthermore, the factorial congruence between boys and girls and between younger and older adolescents was examined. Using exploratory factorial analysis the factorial structure was replicated and by means of the analysis of the orthogonal structure of Procrustes the factorial congruence of the scale in Brazil was proved, as well and by sex and age.