Validity of the Korean Parenting Stress Index for Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the validity of the Korean Parenting Stress Index(K-PSI) for parents of children with CP. For this, it was measured parenting stress of mothers of children with CP(age range=3~17) by using the K-PSI, and then confirmatory factor analysis was confirmed to identify the factor structure of the K-PSI. This study results indicated that model fit indices similar to the standardized K-PSI. But, all path coefficients of distraction/hyperactivity sub-items of the child domain were found not significant, and mood and reward of the child domain, and attachment, competence, and health of the parents domain showed low reliability. This results revealed that the reliability and validity of the Received (September 14, 2015), Review Result(Octorber 02, 2015) Accepted(October 14, 2015), Published(December 31, 2015) 55069 Dept. of Secondary Special Education, College of Education, Jeonju Univ., Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, Korea email: eunyoung@jj.ac.kr (Corresponding Author) Dept. of Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine.,. Institute for Health Improvement., & Center for Animal Resources Development, Wonkwang Univ., 460 Iksandae-ro, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, Korea email: tiffaniey@wku.ac.kr Validity of the Korean Parenting Stress Index for Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy Copyright c 2015 HSST 256 K-PSI was not secured to measure the parenting stress of mother of children with CP. In future research it will study to find out whether the K-PSI is a reasonable tool to measure parenting stress of mother of children with CP through Item Response Theory, etc.