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Parental Home Assessment Index: Internal and Inter-Parent Reliability and Construct Validity

Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University

The Parental Home Assessment Index (PHAI) was developed to obtain parents assessments of the educational/developmental quality of their young children's home environments. The PHAI was composed of 23 home observation items, which each parent rated on a five-point scale. Adequate data were obtained from 73 mothers and 54 fathers of children between 3 and 6 years. The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was 0.65 (0.74 standardized) for the fathers and 0.56 (0.65 standardized) for the mothers who responded to the parental survey. The PHAI inter-parent reliability correlation between the 54 pairs of mothers and fathers was .41 (p = .002). The validity of the parental assessment was shown by the correlations between the PHAI scores of mothers and fathers and measures of their children's development. The scale is included.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 49, No. 4, 993-998 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/001316448904900423


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