Department of Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education, Anadolu University.
J Couns Psychol. 2021 Jan;68(1):98-111. doi: 10.1037/cou0000439. Epub 2020 Apr 20.
Describing a maladaptive parent-child relationship wherein a parent turns to a child for the satisfaction of emotional and/or relational needs, emotional incest remains an underinvestigated phenomenon. This is partly due to a lack of an empirically based measure of childhood emotional incest, and as a result, a 2-factor, 12-item scale was created based on expert opinion and a preliminary study of 319 university students. Each consisting of 6 items, the factors were called "Surrogate Spouse" and "Unsatisfactory Childhood." A follow-up study conducted with a second sample of 415 participants supports the 2-factor structure as a good fit to the data as well as the invariance of the scale across genders. The Childhood Emotional Incest Scale (CEIS) demonstrates good convergent validity with childhood emotional neglect ( = .58) and emotional abuse ( = .52) as well as good divergent validity with early memories of warmth and safeness ( = -0.54). The CEIS has also been found to be a stronger predictor of decreased life satisfaction and increased anxiety than the Parent-Focused Parentification subscale. Based on the values of internal consistency, composite reliability, and test-retest reliability, both factor and total scores of the CEIS can also be considered reliable. Therefore, as a measure of childhood emotional experiences for the retrospective assessment of adults, the 12-item CEIS can be utilized in the research of counseling, psychology, and education, particularly with regard to expanding knowledge into the roots and consequences of emotional incest and promoting parenting practices and marital/relational dynamics that are more functional. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
描述一种父母与子女之间适应不良的关系，即父母从孩子那里寻求情感和/或关系需求的满足，这种情感乱伦仍然是一个研究不足的现象。这在一定程度上是由于缺乏基于经验的儿童情感乱伦测量方法，因此，根据专家意见和对 319 名大学生的初步研究，创建了一个包含 12 个项目的两因素量表。这两个因素分别是“替代配偶”和“不美满的童年”。随后对 415 名参与者进行的后续研究支持了两因素结构与数据的良好拟合，以及该量表在性别上的不变性。儿童情感乱伦量表（CEIS）与儿童情感忽视（r=.58）和情感虐待（r=.52）具有良好的聚合效度，与早期温暖和安全的记忆（r=-.54）具有良好的发散效度。CEIS 还被发现是预测生活满意度降低和焦虑增加的一个更强有力的指标，而不是父母关注的父母化子量表。基于内部一致性、综合可靠性和测试-重测可靠性的值，CEIS 的两个因素和总分也可以被认为是可靠的。因此，作为一种用于成人回溯性评估的儿童情感体验的测量方法，12 项 CEIS 可用于咨询、心理学和教育研究，特别是在扩大对情感乱伦根源和后果的认识以及促进更具功能性的育儿实践和婚姻/关系动态方面。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
