Factor Analysis of a French-Canadian Form of the Parental Attitude Research Instrument

We analyzed the factorial structure of a French version of the Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI), a questionnaire designed to measure parental attitudes toward child rearing and family life. Principal component analysis with varimax rotation of data of a sample of 98 French-Canadian mothers revealed three factors: Authoritarian-Control, Hostility-Rejection, and Democratic Attitudes. Results were compared with the findings of Schaefer and Bell (1958), and of Zuckerman, Barrett-Ribback, Monashkin, and Norton (1958). We determined that a French translation of this questionnaire had the same factorial structure as the English original.