THE STRUCTURE OF PARENTING SENSE OF COMPETENCY IN PARENTS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
THE STRUCTURE OF PARENTING SENSE OF COMPETENCY IN PARENTS OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: The goal of this research was to determine the latent structure of the set of indicators of competencies of parents of preschool children on the sample of 105 respondents from the territory of the municipality of Novi Bečej. The instrument used in the research was the Questionnaire on Parenting Sense of Competency, which is a modification of the scale Parenting Sense of Competency Scale (Gibaud-Wallston & Wandersman, 1978). The first extracted factor was defined as Parenting demands and parental stress. The second extracted factor points to Parental satisfaction, whereas the third indicates Subjective parenting competency. The extracted factors point to the parents’ need for developing their parental competencies, but also to the fact that they have reached socio-emotional maturity needed for this role, and can therefore be” good role models “to future parents.

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