title: New inventory for measurement of parental rearing patterns. An English form of the EMBU.
abstract: Despite the importance of measurement of parental rearing patterns in psychiatric research, there are almost no acceptable standardised inventories available. An English-language version of the Swedish EMBU Inventory is presented, which has subscales measuring the degree to which each parent was abusive, depriving, punitive, shaming, rejecting, overprotective, overinvolved, tolerant, affectionate, performance-oriented, guilt-engendering, stimulating, favoured siblings, and favoured the subject. Results indicate high and comparable reliability and item-factor structure. It would appear that the EMBU has both cross-cultural reliability and stable structure in the English translation.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development; D002668:Child Rearing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics