Lindeberg Sara, Tedgård Eva, Kerstis Birgitta, Tedgård Ulf, Taylor Alyx, Jönsson Peter
Department of Health Sciences, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Scania Regional Council, Department for Regional Development, Malmö, Sweden.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 May 17. doi: 10.1007/s10578-024-01699-x.
Valid measurement instruments are needed to investigate the impact of parental bonding on child health development. The aim was to develop and validate a self-report questionnaire, the Parent-to-Infant Bonding Scale (PIBS) to measure bonding in both mothers and fathers. Internal consistency and construct validity were analysed using data from Swedish parents from both clinical (N = 182), and community (N = 122) population samples. Overall, good or acceptable internal consistency of the PIBS appeared. Convergent validity (against the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire, analysed in the clinical sample) and discriminant validity (against the mental health constructs of depressive symptoms and anxiety) were demonstrated. The results support the PIBS as a measure of maternal and paternal bonding in community and clinical populations. Assessments of criterion validity in these populations are desirable. The similarities in PIBS measurement properties between the parent groups suggest its usefulness for comparisons between mothers and fathers, and for future investigations of unique and interactive impacts of maternal and paternal bonding on child outcomes using community and clinical cohorts.
需要有效的测量工具来研究父母养育方式对儿童健康发展的影响。目的是开发并验证一份自我报告问卷——父母与婴儿依恋量表（PIBS），用于测量母亲和父亲的依恋情况。使用来自瑞典临床（N = 182）和社区（N = 122）人群样本的父母数据，分析了内部一致性和结构效度。总体而言，PIBS呈现出良好或可接受的内部一致性。证明了收敛效度（与临床样本中分析的产后依恋问卷相比）和区分效度（与抑郁症状和焦虑的心理健康结构相比）。结果支持将PIBS作为社区和临床人群中测量母婴和父婴依恋的一种方法。对这些人群的效标效度进行评估是可取的。父母群体之间PIBS测量属性的相似性表明，它有助于比较母亲和父亲，并有助于未来使用社区和临床队列研究母婴和父婴依恋对儿童结局的独特和交互影响。
