Raw data for manuscript: <b>Parental self-efficacy for reducing the risk of adolescent depression and anxiety during a pandemic: Scale development and validation.</b>

This is the raw data file to accompany the abovementioned manuscript, first submitted to Mental Health and Prevention June 2024.<b>Abstract</b>BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted adolescent mental health. Parents can play an important role in preventing adolescent mental health problems like depression and anxiety disorders. Pandemic situations present new challenges that are likely to impact parents’ confidence in their parenting. Given the possibility of future pandemics, parents need self-efficacy for taking action to protect the mental health of their adolescents. Improving parental self-efficacy requires suitable outcome measures. However, there is no validated measure to assess parental self-efficacy in relation to parenting behaviours implicated in the prevention of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders within a pandemic context.MethodThis study aimed to develop and validate the Parental Self-Efficacy Scale for Pandemic situations (PSES-Pandemic) using a sample of 587 Australian parents of adolescents aged 12 to 17 participating in a preventive parenting intervention trial.ResultsThe PSES-Pandemic demonstrated good internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis supported a single factor. Convergent validity was supported by moderate to large correlations with validated measures of both parental self-efficacy and parenting behaviours. Smaller, significant correlations with measures of parent distress and adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms supported divergent validity.ConclusionsThese findings provide preliminary support for the reliability and validity of the PSES-Pandemic, which could help inform and facilitate the evaluation of preventive parenting interventions for adolescent mental health in a pandemic context, and could be adapted for future large-scale disasters (e.g., future pandemics, natural disasters).本文件为上述手稿的原始数据，该手稿首次于2024年6月提交至《心理健康与预防》（Mental Health and Prevention）期刊。<b>摘要</b>背景：新冠疫情（COVID-19 pandemic）对青少年心理健康产生了负面影响。父母在预防青少年抑郁、焦虑障碍等心理健康问题方面可发挥重要作用。疫情情境带来了新的挑战，可能影响父母的育儿信心。考虑到未来疫情的可能性，父母需要采取行动保护青少年心理健康的自我效能感（self-efficacy）。提升父母自我效能感需要合适的结局指标，但目前尚无经过验证的工具，用于评估疫情背景下与预防青少年抑郁和焦虑障碍相关的育儿行为中的父母自我效能感。方法：本研究旨在开发并验证疫情情境下父母自我效能感量表（Parental Self-Efficacy Scale for Pandemic situations，PSES-Pandemic），研究样本为587名参与预防性育儿干预试验的澳大利亚12-17岁青少年父母。结果：PSES-Pandemic表现出良好的内部一致性（internal consistency），验证性因子分析（confirmatory factor analysis）支持单因子结构。该量表的聚合效度（convergent validity）得到支持，其与已验证的父母自我效能感及育儿行为量表呈中至高度相关；区分效度（divergent validity）亦得到支持，其与父母痛苦及青少年抑郁、焦虑症状量表呈显著但较弱的相关。结论：上述发现为PSES-Pandemic的信度和效度提供了初步支持。该量表可助力疫情背景下青少年心理健康预防性育儿干预的评估，并可适配于未来大规模灾难（如后续疫情、自然灾害）。