Adolescents’ Vs. Parents’ Perceptions of Parenting Style: Comparable Reliability and Validity or Not?

We reworded items in the PAQ to create a Parent Version (PAQ-PV). Reliability and validity tests of the PAQ with students and PAQ-PV with parents revealed divergent results. While the PAQ had psychometric properties comparable to Buri’s study, the PAQ-PV had good reliability and criterion validity but questionable discriminant validity.