Supervision Questionnaire – Child
Adapted from the revised version of the Supervision/Involvement Scale of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber & van Kammen, 1998), which is related to family factors associated with delinquency (Loeber & Stouthamer-Loeber, 1986) and is based on the Moos' Family Environment Scale (Moos & Moos, 1975) and the Skinner, Steinhauer, & Santa-Barbara's (1983) Family Assessment Measure. The Pittsburgh Youth Study, The Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Abstract: The Supervision Scale - Child Grade 4+ version is an 18-item measure developed for this project to assess facets of parenting supervision and involvement. The questions in this revised questionnaire generally assess the child's perception of the primary caregiver's knowledge of his/her whereabouts, the amount of discussion and planning regarding communication of his/her whereabouts, the amount of time that the youth is unsupervised and the parent's knowledge of the youth's friends. Seven items in this revised questionnaire were not used in the scaling. Six items were not considered because the response format required either the specific indication of the time of day the child is expected home on school or weekend nights (items 5 and 7, respectively) or the responses were coded as categorical (items 14, 15, 16 and 18). One item (10) was eliminated because of a high level (55.9%) of missing data. The responses to the remaining 11 items used for scaling are coded on item-specific 5-point scales, where 1 represents 'Almost Never' and 5 represents 'Almost Always'. Two of these items (3 and 9) failed to demonstrate any statistically significant relation to the other 9 items and are not considered to be representative of any specific dimension or construct. However, these two items were retained and suggested as important individual indicators of the child's perception of parental supervision. The scaling of the 11 items of this questionnaire was based on previously derived dimensions or constructs on the original measures (Loeber et al, 1998). A single confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), utilizing a least-squares estimation procedure was used to assess statistical support for the dimension of "Supervision / Involvement". The constructs of "Discussing Daily Activities" and "Curfew Time" each consisted of only two items and reliability estimates are based on the inter-item correlations. The "Supervision / Involvement" scale is a measure of parental monitoring and can be used to assess the child's perception of the primary caregiver's knowledge of the his/her activities and companions. The next two scales also assess aspects of parental monitoring. The "Discussing Daily Activities" scale can be used to evaluate the child's perception of the frequency of parent-child communication about his/her activities and "Curfew Time" can be used to assess the extent to which the primary caregiver sets regulations on the timing of these activities for the child. Additionally, the scale and item reponses presented here can be used to make a direct comparison between the responses by the child and the primary caregiver.
Who Completed this Measure?: select one
Cohort 1 - Administrative History
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
- Year 08 | grade 7 | age 13
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
- Year 10 | grade 9 | age 15
- Year 11 | grade 10 | age 16
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
Cohort 2 - Administrative History
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
- Year 08 | grade 7 | age 13
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
- Year 10 | grade 9 | age 15
- Year 11 | grade 10 | age 16
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
Cohort 3 - Administrative History
- Year 05 | grade 4 | age 10
- Year 06 | grade 5 | age 11
- Year 08 | grade 7 | age 13
- Year 09 | grade 8 | age 14
- Year 10 | grade 9 | age 15
- Year 11 | grade 10 | age 16
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
Technical Reports:
Raw Dataset Name: CyO
Scored Dataset Name: SCHySCc
Keywords:
Family Environment, Parent-Child Communication, Parental Involvement, Supervision
Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: Yes
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Measure Items and Scales:
| COHORT | Cohort |
| SITECODE | Actual Code Number on Form |
| TCID | Study ID Number |
| C6O1 | Parent Discussed Daily Plans |
| C6O2 | Parent Discussed the Day's Activities |
| C6O3 | Parent Discussed School |
| C6O4 | Have Curfew on School Nights |
| C6O6 | Have Weekend Curfew |
| C6O8 | Parent Knows of Curfew Violation |
| C6O9 | Can Leave Home if Parent Gone |
| C6O10 | Leave Note of Destination |
| C6O11 | Parent Knows Companions Away from Home |
| C6O12 | Parent Knows When will Arrive Home |
| C6O13 | Know How to Contact Absent Parent |
| C6O14 | After School Supervision |
| C6O15 | Evening Supervision |
| C6O16 | Weekend Supervision |
| C6O17 | Parent Knows at Home Activities |
| C6O18 | Number of Friends Parent Knows |
| SITE | Site |
| sch6sup | Y6 Child - Supervision-Involvement |
| sch6dda | Y6 Child - Discussing Daily Activities |
| sch6ct | Y6 Child - Curfew Time |