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Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal, Family
Specificity
Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
Year
1982
Author
Barnes & Olson
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale
- Acronym
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PACS
- Area
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Personal, Family
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Legal and illegal drugs
- Objective
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Analyze the type of communication between parents and adolescent children by pairs (mother-child and father-child)
- Factors it measures
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- Openness
- Communication problems
- Year
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1982
- Author
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Barnes & Olson
- Author Contact Data
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Olson, David H.
Emérito
E-mail: dolson@umn.edu
- Availability
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Free
- Link
Versions
Year
2005
Validation Country
Spain
Author
Estévez
Author Contact Data
Estévez, Estefanía
Universidad Miguel Hernández
E-mail: eestevez@umh.es
References
Estévez, E. (2005). Violencia, victimización y rechazo escolar en la adolescencia. Valencia: Publicaciones de la Universitat de Valencia.
Estévez, E., Musitu, G., & Herrero, J. (2005). El rol de la comunicación familiar y del ajuste escolar en la salud mental del adolescente. Salud mental, 28, 81-89.
Year
2008
Validation Country
Argentina
Author
Schmidt, Messoulam, Molina, & Abal
Author Contact Data
Schmidt, Vanina
Instituto de Investigaciones. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
E-mail: vschmidt@psi.uba.ar
References
Schmidt, V., Messoulam, N., Molina, M. F., & Abal, F. (2008). Hacia una versión argentina de una escala de comunicación padres-adolescente. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 42, 41-48.
Description
- Abstract
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PACS allows to evaluate the communicative style by dyads between parents and children through 20 items independently referred to each one (mother / father) on a Likert scale by means of two factors: degree of openness and communication problems
- Psychometric characteristics
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The internal consistency indices for Degree of openness and Communication problems show values of .87 and .78 respectively, although in another study it has been structured by three factors: Openness to communication, Offensive family communication and Avoidance family communication (Estévez, Musitu, & Herrero, 2005) in the Spanish population
- No. of items
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It consists of 20 items (father / mother in a differentiated way) that are answered on a Likert scale with five answer options ranging from 'totally agree' to 'totally disagree'
- Duration
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10 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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The items are the same for each member of the family, with the only exception in the form of enunciation. The results are obtained through the summation of the scores associated with the response forms, reflecting the communicative style referred to the father / mother
- Application context
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Clinic
- Population
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Children and adolescents
- References
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Barnes, H. L., & Olson, D. H. (1982). Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale. En D. H. Olson, H. McCubbin, H. Barnes, M. Larsen, M. Muxen & W. Wilson (Eds.). Family inventories: Inventories used in a national survey of families across de family life cycle (pp. 33-48). St. Paul, NM: University of Minnesota.