Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire.
PSDQ
- What it measures
- Baumrind-style parenting: Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive styles, each with subdimensions (e.g., warmth/involvement, reasoning/induction, democratic participation; verbal hostility, punitive, non-reasoning; indulgent, ignoring misbehavior)
- Length and format
- 62 (full); 32 (short form). 5-point frequency (never to always) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (extensively used cross-culturally - dozens of adaptations)
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Robinson, C. C., Mandleco, B., Olsen, S. F., & Hart, C. H. (2001). The Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ). In Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques, Vol. 3 (pp. 319-321). Sage.
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