Hofecker Fallahpour Maria, Benkert Therese Nathell, Riecher-Rössler Anita, Stieglitz Rolf-Dieter
Psychiatrische Poliklinik am Universitätsspital Basel, Basel.
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2009 Jun;59(6):224-33. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1067436. Epub 2008 Jul 8.
The Parenting Stress Index (PSI) consists of 120 items measuring the subjective burden--labelled as parenting stress--of adults in parenting children from the age of newborns up to 12 years. The PSI is a self report scale which was developed in the US in 1976. Since then the PSI has been widely used in family and parenting research and was validated in many different languages but not yet in German. Therefore we administered the PSI to a sample of 372 German speaking parents with children from newborns up to 12 years of age in Basel, Switzerland. The questionnaire was handed out to parents in schools, kindergartens and day care centers along with one other complementary questionnaire such as the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) or the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) measuring similar or divergent constructs. Internal consistency was high with a Cronbach's alpha Coefficient of 0.95 for total stress and 0.91 and 0.92 for the subscores of the child domain and parent domain respectively. The selectivity of most items ranged from sufficient to good. In order to assess the structure of the PSI factor analysis was performed. The principle component analysis revealed a two-factor solution accounting for 58 % of variance. The factorial structure of the original scale was therefore replicated. However, a three-factor solution seemed to describe data better. Correlations with other self report scales resulted as predicted. In summary the German translation of the PSI proved to assess reliably the construct of parenting stress. This instrument will serve family researchers and clinicians in German speaking countries to detect families at risk.
育儿压力指数（PSI）由120个项目组成，用于衡量成年人在养育从新生儿到12岁儿童过程中的主观负担，即育儿压力。PSI是一种自陈量表，于1976年在美国编制。从那时起，PSI在家庭和育儿研究中得到了广泛应用，并在多种不同语言中得到验证，但尚未在德语中得到验证。因此，我们对瑞士巴塞尔的372名讲德语、育有从新生儿到12岁孩子的父母进行了PSI测试。问卷与另一补充问卷（如测量相似或不同构念的贝克抑郁量表（BDI）或二元调适量表（DAS））一起发放给学校、幼儿园和日托中心的家长。总压力的克朗巴赫α系数为0.95，儿童领域和家长领域子分数的克朗巴赫α系数分别为0.91和0.92，内部一致性较高。大多数项目的区分度从足够到良好不等。为了评估PSI的结构，进行了因子分析。主成分分析揭示了一个占方差58%的两因素解决方案。因此，原始量表的因子结构得以复制。然而，一个三因素解决方案似乎能更好地描述数据。与其他自陈量表的相关性如预期所示。总之，PSI的德语翻译被证明能够可靠地评估育儿压力这一构念。该工具将为讲德语国家的家庭研究人员和临床医生服务，以发现有风险的家庭。
