Parental Bonding Instrument.

PBI

What it measures

Retrospective perceived parenting in the first 16 years on two dimensions: Care and Overprotection (Control), yielding four quadrants (optimal, affectionate constraint, affectionless control, neglectful)

Length and format

25 per parent (completed separately for mother and father). 4-point (very like to very unlike) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages incl. Polish, Japanese, Bangla, Spanish, Italian and dozens more

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Parker, G., Tupling, H., & Brown, L. B. (1979). A Parental Bonding Instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 52(1), 1-10.