Psychometric Properties of Questionnaire of Parents’ Role in Online Learning and Children’s Social–Emotional Development

Abstract

Parents plays important role in nurturing children’s social-emotional development. In the context of education, parents are the first teachers for children, who give examples to children shaping their attitudes and behaviors in accordance with the norms prevailing in society. Therefore, it is vital to have sound instrument that can be used to identify the role of parents in nurturing children’s social-emotional development. This chapter aims to investigate the validity and reliability of the instruments of the role of parents in online learning and social-emotional development of children. This questionnaire is an adaptation of the previous study. This questionnaire was distributed to two early childhood education experts and 50 randomly selected parents with children aged 5 to 7 years. The SPSS 22 program is used to analyze the data. The validity analysis results for the questionnaire of parents' role in online learning and children's social-emotional development are 0.91 and 0.94, respectively. Aside from the expert score, the results are 0.83 and 0.85, respectively. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the parents' role questionnaire in online learning is 0.868, and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the children's social-emotional development questionnaire is 0.860, according to reliability analysis. This finding demonstrated that these two questionnaires can be used to determine the stage of parental role and the stage of social-emotional development of children. Overall, the findings of the study could be applied to a similar future study.