Parenting Practices
The Parental Capacities Inventory (PACOTIS) is a self-report
questionnaire that assesses parental perceptions and behaviours toward
their infant (Bovin et al., 2015). It comprises 28 items that
participants rate on a Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all what I
think) to 10 (exactly what I think). The tool has four dimensions:
parental self-efficacy, perceived parental impact, parental
hostile-reactive behaviours, and parental overprotection. The higher the
score, the stronger the perceptions and behaviours. PACOTIS has been
found to have high internal consistency, with a Cronbach’s alpha
coefficient of 0.75 and has demonstrated strong correlations with other
measures of parental perceptions towards infants (Črnčec, Barnett, &
Matthey, 2010)