Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition (and Short Form).

PSI-4 / PSI-SF

What it measures

Magnitude of stress in the parent-child system; Child Domain and Parent Domain (13 subscales) plus Total Stress; PSI-SF gives Parental Distress, Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction, Difficult Child, Total Stress, and a Defensive Responding index

Length and format

120 (PSI-4 full); 36 (PSI-4-SF). 5-point agreement (full); short form 5-point agreement (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Spanish (US) forms; translated/validated in many languages (one of the most translated parenting measures)

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 - commercial

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Reference

Abidin, R. R. (2012). Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition (PSI-4). Lutz, FL: PAR. (https://www.parinc.com/products/PSI-4)

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