TY - JOUR
T1 - A Child-Centered Scale of Informal Social Control for Latino Parents of Preschool-Age Children
T2 - Development and Validation
AU - Cerin, Ester
AU - O’Connor, Teresia M.
AU - Mendoza, Jason A.
AU - Thompson, Deborah I.
AU - Lee, Rebecca
AU - Hughes, Sheryl O.
AU - Baranowski, Tom
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH)–Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R21HD060925). This work is a publication of the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS) Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) through a cooperative agreement (USDA/ARS 6250-51000-053-20S). Jason A. Mendoza was supported, in part, by a career development award (K07CA131178). Ester Cerin is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT140100085).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Perceived neighborhood informal social control may determine whether parents allow their young children to be physically active in the neighborhood. We developed and validated a scale of neighborhood child-centered informal social control appropriate for Latino parents of preschool-age children. The scale was administered to 240 Latino parents, mainly mothers, recruited from neighborhoods cross-stratified by objectively measured crime and traffic safety. Participants completed measures of community cohesion, perceived signs of physical and social disorder, traffic safety and hazards, and perceived stranger danger. A subsample was reassessed 1 week later to determine test-retest reliability. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were conducted to examine the fit of the data to a priori measurement models. Construct validity was assessed by estimating the associations of the scale with the other measures. The scale showed good test-retest reliability, and factorial and construct validity. The scale needs to be cross-validated on other samples and Latino fathers.
AB - Perceived neighborhood informal social control may determine whether parents allow their young children to be physically active in the neighborhood. We developed and validated a scale of neighborhood child-centered informal social control appropriate for Latino parents of preschool-age children. The scale was administered to 240 Latino parents, mainly mothers, recruited from neighborhoods cross-stratified by objectively measured crime and traffic safety. Participants completed measures of community cohesion, perceived signs of physical and social disorder, traffic safety and hazards, and perceived stranger danger. A subsample was reassessed 1 week later to determine test-retest reliability. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were conducted to examine the fit of the data to a priori measurement models. Construct validity was assessed by estimating the associations of the scale with the other measures. The scale showed good test-retest reliability, and factorial and construct validity. The scale needs to be cross-validated on other samples and Latino fathers.
KW - Latino
KW - factorial structure
KW - informal social control
KW - physical activity
KW - preschool-age children
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U2 - 10.1177/0739986315601616
DO - 10.1177/0739986315601616
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84944610205
SN - 0739-9863
VL - 37
SP - 541
EP - 559
JO - Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
JF - Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
IS - 4
ER -