Assessment of global parenting style and specific parenting behavior in a Chinese context

On two occasions separated by one year, 378 Chinese secondary school studen ts responded to the Paternal Treatment Scale (PTS), Maternal Treatment Scal e (MTS), Paternal Parenting Scale (PPS), and Maternal Parenting Scale (MPS) , with the first two scales measuring global parenting styles and the latte r two scales assessing specific parenting behavior. Factor analyses showed that two dimensions ("concern" and "harshness") were intrinsic to the PTS a nd MTS and two factors ("responsiveness" and "demandingness") were abstract ed from the PPS and MPS. Further analyses showed that the factors derived f rom the scales were highly stable across time and sample. Reliability analy ses showed that the related scales and subscales at different time were int ernally consistent. There is also some support for the validity of the rela ted measures.