Assessment of the potential for maladaptive parenting in expectant fathers with the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI).

@article{Tiller1991AssessmentOT,
  title={Assessment of the potential for maladaptive parenting in expectant fathers with the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI).},
  author={Cecilia Tiller},
  journal={Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric and mental health nursing},
  year={1991},
  volume={4 2},
  pages={
          55-61
        }
}
  • C. Tiller
  • Published 1 April 1991
  • Psychology, Education
  • Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric and mental health nursing
The purpose of this investigation was to determine if expectant fathers could be assessed for potential maladaptive parenting with the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI). Image factor analysis with matrix rotation by SPSSx was used to replicate Bavolek's (1984) earlier work. It was concluded that the AAPI was appropriate for use with expectant fathers because their responses were not significantly different than those of other populations. The 232 subjects' scores indicated that… 
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