Egna Minnen Betraffande Uppfostran - Short Form (My Memories of Upbringing).
s-EMBU
- What it measures
- Perceived parental rearing behavior on 3 dimensions: Rejection, Emotional Warmth, and Overprotection (separately for mother and father)
- Length and format
- 23 per parent (short form; original EMBU ~81 items). 4-point (no/never to yes, most of the time) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (the short form was explicitly cross-nationally validated; child and adolescent versions exist)
- 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
- Arrindell, W. A., et al. (1999). The development of a short form of the EMBU. Personality and Individual Differences, 27(4), 613-628.
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