The Leuven Adolescent Perceived Parenting Scale (LAPPS): Reliability and Validity with French-Speaking Adolescents in Belgium

Marie Delhaye,Luc Goossens,Theo A Klimstra,Paul Linkowski,Wim Beyers

doi:10.5334/pb-52-4-289

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Psychologica Belgica is the official journal of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS). BAPS promotes the development of psychological sciences in Belgium, at both fundamental and applied research levels. The journal ensures rigorous peer-review to maintain research integrity.Psychological Belgica makes publications available online as soon as they are finalised. All publications are open access, making research available free of charge and without delay.The journal has a 2021 Impact Factor of 1.717 and a 5 year impact factor of 2.352.Subscribe to content alerts and other journal news here. You can also follow the journal on ResearchGate.

Highlights

Parenting has been defined as anything that parents do, or fail to do, that may affect their children (Kendziora & O’Leary, 1993)
The present study examines whether this measure is sufficiently reliable and valid to be used with adolescents from a different linguistic region, that is, the Frenchspeaking part of Belgium
Promising findings have been obtained on the psychometric properties of the measure in a sample of adolescents from the French-speaking region in Belgium

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Parenting has been defined as anything that parents do, or fail to do, that may affect their children (Kendziora & O’Leary, 1993). That are THE LEUVEN ADOLESCENT PERCEIVED PARENTING SCALE (LAPPS). Parents’ scores on these continua are associated with both internalising problems (e.g., depression) and externalising problems (e.g., delinquency) in adolescence (Laursen & Collins, 2009). These associations do not imply a causal effect of parenting or specific parenting styles or aspects thereof on adolescent behaviour, as it is likely that more problematic behaviour in adolescents leads their parents to adopt a less effective parenting style (Kerr & Stattin, 2003). It is important to have a solid measure of parenting style dimensions to further explore associations with adolescent problem behaviour

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