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Here, add potentially interesting, validated instruments for measuring aspects of family life and relationships. A note about finding the full-text surveys: some of these are related full-text in a publication; some are found full-text in the 3rd volume of the Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques (2001); all others are best obtained by emailing the primary author. I found that this tends to be quick and painless... Pierce, G.R. Quality of Relationships Inventory: Assessing the Interpersonal Context of Social Support. Commun. of Social Support, (1991), 246-266. A questionnaire for measuring support, conflict, and depth in a dyadic relationship.
Buchanan, C.M., Maccoby, E.E., & Dornbusch, S.M. "Parent-Child Closeness (PCC)." In J. Touliatos, B.F. Perlmutter, M.A. Straus and G.W. Holden, eds., Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. SAGE, 2001. A 9-item scale to be answered by the child regarding each of their parents.
Furman, W. Parent-Child Relationship Questionnaire. In J. Touliatos, B.F. Perlmutter, M.A. Straus and G.W. Holden, eds., Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. SAGE, 2001. A long in-depth questionnaire on parent-child relationships (includes both parent and child versions); has 19 scales and 5 factors some of which may be relevant for your project.
Guidubaldi, J. and Cleminshaw, H.K. The Development of the Cleminshaw--Guidubaldi Parent Satisfaction Scale. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 14, 4 (1985), 293. The paper includes the full-text of a scale for measuring a participant's satisfaction in their parental role.
Grych, J.H., Seid, M. & Fincham, F.D. "Children's Perceptions of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC)" In J. Touliatos, B.F. Perlmutter, M.A. Straus and G.W. Holden, eds., Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. SAGE, 2001. 51 self-report items for measuring the child's perception of parental conflict (may be divorced or still together).
Shaw, D.S. and Emery, R.E. Parental conflict and other correlates of the adjustment of school-age children whose parents have separated. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 15, 2 (1987), 269-281. This paper refers the “Acrimony Scale” that measures conflict between ex-spouses post-divorce. Email authors to get he full-text scale.
Ahrons, C. R. "Binuclear Family Research Project." A series of scales to measure coparenting practices in separated families. Email cahrons@usc.edu to get the full text.
Thompson, E.R. Development and Validation of an Internationally Reliable Short-Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 38, 2 (2007), 227-242. A questionnaire for measuring positive and negative affect which may be relevant to anybody interested in evaluating changes in affect with particular interventions.
Cox,J.L., Holden J.M. and Sagovsky, R. Detection of postnatal depression: Development of the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. British Journal of Psychiatry 150 (1987) 782-786. A 10-item self-report scale (EPDS) to screen for Postnatal Depression in the community is described. Used with mothers in the early postnatal period, and sometimes with fathers.
Zigmond, A. S. and Snaith, R. P. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 67, 6, Pages 361 - 370. A self-assessment scale for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic.
Miles, M.S. and Funk, S.G. Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Nursing research 42,3 (1993)148. Scale to measure parental perception of stressors arising from the physical and psychosocial environment of the neonatal intensive care unit. The instrument includes four dimensions: Sights and Sounds of
the Unit, Infant Behavior and Appearance, Staff Relationships, and Parental Role Alteration. |