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The purpose of the study is to adapt the Parent Reading Belief Inventory, which was developed by D. DeBaryshe and Binder (1994) to define the beliefs of parents of pre-school children language and literacy development, related to their children’s book reading processes and aims, to Turkish. In order to reach this aim, initially the inventory was translated by language experts. Later, the views of language and the related fields’ experts regarding the inventory’s cultural, linguistic and semantic appropriateness were gathered. After forming the Turkish version of the inventory, to find out whether it is appropriate for Turkish culture or not, it was applied to 420 mothers, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was applied with the collected data. The original inventory consists of seven factors (Teaching Effectiveness, Positive Effect, Verbal Participation, Reading Instruction, Source of Information, Resources, Environmental Effect) and 42 items. However, t-score of two items in teaching effectiveness and reading instruction were low. By consulting the experts’ opinions, those items were taken out of the inventory without changing its factor structures and the statistical analysis was done again. The second CFA was done with 40 items. It was indicated that all the items in seven sub-dimensions were significant. The calculated fit index was found as X^2/sd=5,72 CFI=0.90, NNFI=0, 90, NFI=0,90 IFI=0,90. The reliability co-efficient of the relation between the factors was found as acceptable. The reliability co-efficient of the sub-dimensions of the inventory was found between .45 - .87 and the total reliability co-efficient was .79. The results of the study indicates that the Parent Reading Belief Inventory can be used as a valid and reliable inventory in Turkey.

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