Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Institut du savoir Montfort, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2020 Oct;51(5):754-768. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-00999-2. Epub 2020 May 5.
The parental bonding instrument (PBI) is a self-report questionnaire that was initially designed to retrospectively assess perceived parenting style during childhood in adult respondents. Recent studies have used the PBI to assess current perception of parenting in children. However, few studies have evaluated the psychometric properties of the PBI in children. This study examined the factor structure and reliability of the PBI in a sample of Canadian children aged 7-18 years (n = 257). Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were conducted separately for the mother and father form of the PBI and composite reliability was used to determine internal consistency of the PBI. A four-factor model (care, overprotection, autonomy, indifference) showed the best fit to the data. The PBI exhibited good internal consistency but poor convergent validity. Configural invariance was not found for the PBI between two age groups (7-12 and 13-18 years), however these findings should be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size in each age group. This study suggests the PBI may be a valid and reliable self-report measure of parental bonding in children but further research is needed.
父母纽带仪器（PBI）是一种自我报告问卷，最初旨在回顾性评估成年受访者在儿童时期的感知育儿风格。最近的研究使用 PBI 来评估儿童当前对育儿的看法。然而，很少有研究评估 PBI 在儿童中的心理测量特性。本研究在一个 7-18 岁的加拿大儿童样本（n=257）中检验了 PBI 的因子结构和可靠性。对 PBI 的母亲和父亲形式分别进行了验证性因素分析（CFA），并使用综合可靠性来确定 PBI 的内部一致性。四因素模型（关爱、过度保护、自主性、冷漠）最符合数据。PBI 表现出良好的内部一致性，但收敛效度较差。在两个年龄组（7-12 岁和 13-18 岁）之间，PBI 没有发现结构不变性，但是由于每个年龄组的样本量较小，这些发现应谨慎解释。本研究表明，PBI 可能是一种有效的、可靠的儿童父母纽带自我报告测量工具，但需要进一步研究。
