[Parental relationship from the perspectives of children, adolescents and clinicians. Development and clinical validation of the Parental-Representation-Screening-Questionnaire (PRSQ)].
The Parental-Representation-Screening-Questionnaire (PRSQ) is a new instrument designed to asses how children and adolescents evaluate their relationship with their parents. The aim of the questionnaire is to assess those aspects in the child-parent relationship that are crucial for a psychopathological risk. Conceptually, the PRSQ is based on cognitive self theory and systemic family theory. The PRSQ consists of 8 scales (36 items) for each parent: "freedom of decision", "emotional burden by the parents", "fears / overprotection", "conflict", "hostility / indifference", "aid for the parents", "punishment", and "support from the parents''. A clinic-referred consecutive sample of 152 patients of a Berlin child and adolescent psychiatry, aged 10 to 18 years, were surveyed. Adverse educational and psychosocial family factors were assessed by clinicians according to the fifths axis of the multiaxial classification system (MAS, Dilling et al. 2000). The internal reliability for 13 of the 16 scales ranges from .90 to .72. Factor analyses confirmed the factorial independence of six of the eight scales separately for mother and father. Moreover, adolescent girls reported significantly worse relations to both parents on five of the 16 scales than boys. Furthermore we found concordant correlations with the clinician's diagnosis of adverse educational and psychosocial family situations. The present results confirm the PRSQ as an economic and discriminating instrument to assess the representation of parent-child relation for clinical and for scientific purposes.
Titze
Karl
K
karl-titze@web.de
Wollenweber
Susanne
S
Nell
Verena
V
Lehmkuhl
Ulrike
U
D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors