Evaluation of Psychometric Properties of the Meta- Parenting Questionnaire

The aim of this study was to introduce the basic structure of the meta-parenting questionnaire as well as providing new tools designed to measure the reliability of the structure, and the results of empirical research early.
This study is a descriptive survey and is a part of research development. The statistical population is all the mothers in Tehran Region 15, in which 200 were selected by the purposive sampling method in 2015-2016. The final questionnaire on 170 women between the ages of 20 and 55 years was conducted. To obtain reliability, Cronbach's alpha, Tansif, and Gotmann was used and for the validity of the Pearson correlation coefficients between short- and long-form meta-parenting questionnaires was used and also for softening scores to Z scores and the scores of T converted. Finally, data were analyzed using SPSS 23 software.
KMO test become equal to 0.88 and at optimal levels and Bartlett test of sphericity was statistically significant. There are four factors in factor analysis confirmed 63.38% of the total variance explained scale. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the results of exploratory factor analysis and model fitting was obtained with research data.
The questionnaire appears to be an important aspect of the development of constructive and good parenting skills to foster the development of children is very important.