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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2017 Apr;21(4):883–892. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-2189-4

Table 1.

Instrument Reliabilities in Current Sample

Reliability Indices
(Cronbach’s Alpha)
Construct/Variable Full
Sample
(n=106)
English
(n=88)
Spanish
(n=18)
Maternal Measures
Depressive Symptom
Severity
Center for Epidemiological Studies
Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977)
.92 .92 .94
Health status Medical Outcomes Studies Short
Form Health Survey, global health (1-
item)(Gandek et al., 1998)
.84 .83 .89
Parent-Child
Interactions
Parenting Stress Index, Parent-Child
Dysfunctional Interaction subscale
(Loyd & Abidin, 1985)
.87 .86 .89
General Self-Efficacy General Self-Efficacy Scale
(Luszczynska et al., 2005).
.76 .79 .62
Social Support Multidimensional Scale of Perceived
Social Support (Zimet et al., 1990)
.84 .83 .89
Family Conflict Family Environment Scale, Family
Conflict Subscale (Moos & Moos, 2002)
.61 .63 .40
Child Measures
Child Behavioral
Problems
The Brief Infant-Toddler Social
Emotional Assessment
(Briggs-Gowan et al., 2004)
.71 .70 .79