摘要：The purpose of this research is to develop and validate an instrument that can be used to measurecritical aspects of a parent's attitude and behavior that influence child development and adaptation. Thisinstrument is named Parenting Style Inventory and self-reporting assessment of parent for preschoolers.We reported findings from 578 preschooler's care-givers. Five factors were extracted from 55 itemsdeveloped for preschooler version and finally 29 items were selected. Subscales were empathy,respect,parental authority,coerciveness,perfectionism. Internal consistency of these subscales were .77,.86,.70,.74,.68 relatively. Empathy,respect and authoritative scales were regarded as the basic dimensions ofparent's behavior. For clinical validation,we divided the preschooler care-giver sample into 8 groupsaccording to scores of the basic dimensions and compared the 8 groups with parenting stress andparenting selfeffiacy scores. The results indicated that three basic factors would have different effectson parental experiences and satisfaction. We suggested the clinical implication and limitation of thisinstrument.
