The present study seeks to obtain validity and reliability evidence of the Parental Involvement Scale: Care and socialization activities in a sample of Peruvian parents of preschool children. For this purpose, the instrument was translated and linguisti- cally harmonized from its English version into Spanish and then applied to a group of 420 fathers and 420 mothers of children from five cities. Evidence of the...
This study compares father involvement, relative to the mother, in a group of Peruvian families with preschool age children. We have also sought to understand if father’s rearing history and sociodemographic characteristics are predictors of his own involvement in child related activities. Two hundred and six families participated in the study. Results showed that mothers were more involved in direct and indire...