Table 7.
Targeting and reliability of the Parental Stress and Lack of Parental Satisfaction subscales in the separate behaviour and ordinary samples
| Theta | Score | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subscales, Samples and Parent subgroupsa (n) | Target | Mean | TI mean | TI max | TI Target index | RMSE mean | RMSE min | RMSE target index | Target | Mean | Mean SEM | r |
| Parental Stress subscale | ||||||||||||
| Ordinary sample | ||||||||||||
| Child age 2–5 years (174) | −.95 | −.03 | 1.318 | 1.465 | .900 | .865 | .826 | .955 | 3.45 | 4.75 | 1.14 | .74 |
| Child age 6–10 years (201) | −.19 | −.50 | 1.322 | 1.382 | .956 | .861 | .851 | .988 | 4.63 | 4.18 | 1.15 | .70 |
| Child age 11–18 years (196) | .07 | −.1.25 | 1.196 | 1.341 | .892 | .884 | .863 | .977 | 5.02 | 3.35 | 1.09 | .72 |
| Behavior sample | ||||||||||||
| Secondary edu or less (148) | −.30 | .36 | 1.286 | 1.556 | .826 | .892 | .802 | .899 | 4.21 | 5.10 | 1.13 | .71 |
| Tertiary edu (86) | −.58 | .86 | 1.124 | 1.341 | .839 | .930 | .864 | .929 | 3.50 | 5.21 | 1.06 | .72 |
| Lack of Parental Satisfaction subscale | ||||||||||||
| Ordinary sample (571) | −.92 | −3.91 | .430 | 1.706 | .252 | 1.320 | .766 | .580 | 3.08 | .69 | .60 | .55 |
| Behavior sample (234) | .32 | −3.14 | .518 | 1.367 | .379 | 1.289 | .855 | .663 | 3.85 | .92 | .65 | .71 |
Notes. TI Test information, RMSE The root mean squared error of the estimated theta score, SEM The standard error of measurement of the observed score, r reliability, Edu Education
aTargeting and reliability is provided for groups defined by DIF variables