PMID- 34051915
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211028
LR  - 20211028
IS  - 1873-3506 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-4405 (Linking)
VI  - 86
DP  - 2021 Jun
TI  - Parental Attitudes Towards Inclusiveness Instrument (PATII): Psychometric 
      evaluation of a new instrument measuring parental beliefs about gender and 
      sexuality diversity inclusions in schools.
PG  - 222-242
LID - S0022-4405(21)00017-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.02.008 [doi]
AB  - Despite ad hoc claims that parents often are in opposition to a schooling 
      curriculum that is inclusive of gender and sexuality diversity, there exists no 
      research to date that has canvassed the reasons why parents may oppose or support 
      such educational policy via a psychometrically sound instrument. The aim of the 
      present study was to address this gap by developing and testing a new, 
      multidimensional measure of the theorized nature of parental attitudes towards 
      inclusiveness, the Parental Attitudes Towards Inclusiveness Instrument (PATII). 
      The pilot sample of 998 parents who had a child attending school in any grade 
      from Kindergarten to Year 12 were drawn from the United Kingdom (UK) and the 
      United States (U.S.) via the online recruitment platform, Prolific. The PATII was 
      evaluated for its reliability using McDonald's omega, construct and criterion 
      validity, and measurement invariance utilizing exploratory structural equation 
      modelling (ESEM), with initial ESEM analyses also compared to traditional 
      confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) methods. Scores derived from this measure and 
      inferences based upon those scores were reliable, valid, and also invariant 
      across sex, religiosity, and nationality groups within this sample. Parental sex, 
      religiosity, and nationality group membership were differentially correlated with 
      support for and opposition to an inclusive curriculum. Lastly, the criterion 
      validity of the PATII was supported, with the instrument's factors differentially 
      correlated to parents' desired providers of inclusive education as predicted. 
      Future national and international use of the PATII offers a critical first step 
      to informing school and curriculum policy on inclusivity.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2021 Society for the Study of School Psychology. Published by 
      Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hobby, Lucy
AU  - Hobby L
AD  - School of Education, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, New 
      South Wales 2751, Australia. Electronic address: l.hobby@westernsydney.edu.au.
FAU - Ullman, Jacqueline
AU  - Ullman J
AD  - School of Education, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, New 
      South Wales 2751, Australia.
FAU - Ferfolja, Tania
AU  - Ferfolja T
AD  - School of Education, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, New 
      South Wales 2751, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20210518
PL  - United States
TA  - J Sch Psychol
JT  - Journal of school psychology
JID - 0050303
SB  - IM
MH  - Attitude
MH  - Child
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Parents
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Schools
MH  - Sexuality
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Construct validity
OT  - Education
OT  - Exploratory structural equation modelling
OT  - Gender and sexuality diversity
OT  - Parents
EDAT- 2021/05/31 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/29 06:00
CRDT- 2021/05/30 20:29
PHST- 2020/03/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/10/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/02/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/05/30 20:29 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/05/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/29 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0022-4405(21)00017-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.02.008 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Sch Psychol. 2021 Jun;86:222-242. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.02.008. Epub 2021 May 
      18.