• Affection-Communication
• Criticism-Rejection

Bersabé, Rosa

Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga (España)

E-mail: bersabe@uma.es

EA evaluates the parental educational styles through two versions (Affect-Communication and Critical-Rejection) through two versions. On the one hand, the version aimed at children measures the perception of the educational style by differentiating between the father and the mother, and on the other, the parents' version responds to specific behaviors expressed by the children. For this, a total of 20 graduated items are used on a Likert scale.

In terms of reliability, the internal consistency indices were the following: Factor I-parent α = .90; Factor II-parent α = .83; I-mother factor α = .87; Factor II-mother α = .81. In turn, the indexes of homogeneity of the items were greater than .45. Likewise, this scale allows obtaining a total score (difference between the factor I and II score). The internal consistency was: α = .92 parent and α = .90 mother, these scores being higher than those of each factor individually. In relation to the internal consistency coefficients of the parent version they also showed a good fit (α = .78 Affect-Communication; α = .66 Critical-Rejection)

• Individual and collective
• Paper

The scores are obtained through a summation based on the response forms of the scale. The total score of each factor is between 10 and 50

Bersabé, R., Fuentes, M. J., & Motrico, E. (2001). Análisis psicométrico de dos escalas para evaluar estilos educativos parentales. Psicothema, 13, 678-684.

Fuentes, M. J., Motrico, E., & Bersabé, R. M. (1999). Escala de Afecto (EA) y Escala de Normas y Exigencias (ENE): Versión hijos y versión padres. Universidad de Málaga.