Factor Analytic Structure and Validity of the Parental Feelings Inventory: A Brief Report

被引：13

作者：

Bradley, Elizabeth Gates ^{[1
]}

Hurwitz, Sara D. ^{[2
]}

Harvey, Elizabeth A. ^{[2
]}

Hodgson, Sarah ^{[3
]}

Perugini, Eve Marie ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] SUNY Empire State Coll, Latham, NY 12110 USA

[2] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[3] Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES | 2013年 / 22卷 / 06期

基金：

美国国家卫生研究院;

关键词：

Emotion; Parent child relations; Childhood; Psychosocial functioning; Parenting behaviors; MOOD;

D O I：

10.1007/s10826-012-9634-9

中图分类号：

D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];

学科分类号：

1204 ;

摘要：

Previous research has highlighted the important role of parental emotions in parent-child interactions and child development. The present study presents the Parental Feelings Inventory (PFI), a new rating scale designed to assess parental emotions within the parenting role. The PFI presents emotion adjectives and asks parents to indicate the degree to which they experience that emotion in their role as parents. This study investigates the factor analytic structure and psychometric properties of this scale in a sample of parents with 3-year-old children. Participants included 149 mothers and 107 fathers of preschool-age children. The results provide support for a three-factor solution (Angry, Happy, and Anxious/Sad). This scale demonstrated good reliability and correlated with other measures of parent and child functioning. These findings provide support for the overall utility of the PFI as a measure of emotional experiences in the parenting role.

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页码：801 / 806

页数：6