Abstract
Psychometric analysis of two scales to evaluate parents' educational styles. The psychometric properties of two scales related to parents' educational styles are analyzed. The Warmth Scale have two factors (warmth-communication and criticism-rejection); and the Rules-Demands Scale is divided in three factors regarding the way compliance to rules is established and demanded (inductive, strict and indulgent styles). In both scales, there are two versions. The child's version is used to evaluate the perception adolescents have of their father and mother's educational style. In the parents' version, parents fill in certain items regarding specific behaviors towards their child. All the scores showed a satisfactory internal consistency reliability; the convergent and discriminant validity rests on the correlations with IPPA (Armsden and Greenberg, 1987), PAQ (Buri, 1991), and 4E (Palacios, 1994). On the other hand, a low rate of agreement was found between the information provided by parents and children, which suggests the need to evaluate the educational styles from both perspectives.
