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)