Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire.
PARQ
- What it measures
- Perceived/remembered parental Warmth-Affection, Hostility-Aggression, Indifference-Neglect, and Undifferentiated Rejection (a Warmth/Acceptance-Rejection continuum); PARTheory framework
- Length and format
- 60 (standard); 24 (short form); separate mother and father versions. 4-point (almost never true to almost always true) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Dozens of languages (PARTheory is explicitly cross-cultural - 60+ countries)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Rohner, R. P., & Khaleque, A. (2005). Handbook for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection (4th ed.). Storrs, CT: Rohner Research. (https://www.csiar.uconn.edu)
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