The Parenting Tasks Checklist (82) consists of 28 items (self-report) designed to assess task-specific self-efficacy in parents. Parents rate how confident they feel when they are dealing with difficult child behavior in common parenting situations. Confidence is rated on a scale from 0 (“certain I cannot do it”) to 10 (“certain I can do it”). Two dimensions are measured: behavioral self-efficacy (confidence in dealing with specific child behaviors) and setting self-efficacy (confidence in different settings). Both scales (each has 14 items) have been shown to have good internal consistency (82). The emphasis of this test on self-efficacy complements, the functional domains of parenting assessed by the Parenting Scale (see above), and further adds to the detailed functional characterization, specific to life situation, of participating mothers with young children.
