Description
The short form of the Parents’ Attribution Test was developed to measure parents’ perceptions of causes of success and failure in hypothetical caregiving situations. Parents are presented with a hypothetical scenario that involves either a positive or negative interaction with a child and are asked to respond to a series of questions regarding reasons that the interaction was positive or negative. Parents rate on a 7-point scale (1 = not at all important, 7 = very important) how important factors such as the child’s disposition and the parent’s behavior were in determining the quality of the interaction.
Reference(s)
- Bugental, D. B., & Shennum, W. A. (1984). “Difficult” children as elicitors and targets of adult communication patterns: An attributional-behavioral transactional analysis. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 49 (Serial No. 205).
Publication(s)
- Lansford, J. E. (Ed.). (2011). Special issue: Parenting attributions and attitudes around the world. Parenting: Science and Practice, 11, 87-238.
- Lansford, J. E., & Bornstein, M. H. (2011). Parenting attributions and attitudes in diverse cultural contexts: Introduction to the Special Issue. Parenting: Science and Practice, 11, 87-101.
- Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Dodge, K. A., Skinner, A. T., Putnick, D. L., & Deater-Deckard, K. (2011). Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in the United States. Parenting: Science and Practice, 11, 199-213.
- Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P. Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., & Bacchini, D. (2018). Parenting, culture, and the development of externalizing behaviors from age seven to 14 in nine countries. Development and Psychopathology, 30, 1937-1958.
- Oburu, P. O. (2011). Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in Kenya. Parenting: Science and Practice, 11, 152-162.
Wave(s) Used
Parent: 1
Measure PDF
Parent Parents’ Attribution Test PDF