Universals in Youths' Perceptions of Parental Acceptance and Rejection: Evidence From Factor Analyses Within Eight Sociocultural Groups Worldwide

Research reported here used identical factor analytic procedures on individual items in the child version of the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) within each of eight sociocultural groups distributed widely around the world. Evidence and results from this research lend strong support to the presumption of con struct validity of the PARQ as a valid cross-cultural measure of the warmth dimension of parenting. As such, the instrument may be used as an additional source of evidence for Raoul Naroll's "tests of theories" step in socionomics.