Construction of a Parentification Questionnaire for Youth

Abstract

health psychology report • volume 8(2),  original article background Parentification is defined as a pattern of family interactions in which a child or an adolescent provides excessive care to the parents instead of receiving it from them. The phenomenon is linked to family difficulties, personality disorders or abuse of psychoactive substances, yet in some circumstances, it may be a factor contributing to an increase in mental resilience and one's independence. participants and procedureThe aim of the study was to prepare a parentification questionnaire for adolescents, adapted to Polish cultural conditions. The study involved 641 teenagers. resultsOn the basis of confirmatory factor analysis, two versions of the tool were created: for adolescents without siblings (4 basic subscales) and for adolescents with siblings (4 basic and 2 additional subscales). conclusionsThe questionnaire draws attention to the multidimensional character of the phenomenon of parentification, focusing on the type of roles and tasks performed by a teenager (i.e. emotional and instrumental parentification), the level of a sense of injustice and satisfaction with the role played in the family system. Additionally, the test allows us to focus on the recipient of the care provided by the child (parents or siblings) while maintaining a structure that allows for conducting research with both only children and persons with siblings and facilitates comparison between them.

The Relations Among Types of Parentification, School Achievement, and Quality of Life in Early Adolescence: An Exploratory Study

“…Another study limitation may be related to the use of a measure in a state of its infancy. Further studies should examine how does the PQY ( Borchet et al, 2020a ) act in various samples in order to make sure if future refinement of the questionnaire may be beneficial.…”

“…The study administered two questionnaires (PQY-Parentification Questionnaire for Youth, Borchet et al, 2020a ; Polish version of KidScreen-27, Mazur et al, 2008 ) and a demographic information sheet.…”

“…Parentification Questionnaire for Youth (PQY; Borchet et al, 2020a ) is a measure developed for adolescents that captures the multidimensional nature of parentification. The questionnaire consists of 26 items rated on a 1 ( never true )- to 5 ( always true )-point Likert-type scale.…”

“…Scores are calculated as the mean of the ratings for the subscale items. The questionnaire does not provide a total score ( Borchet et al, 2020a ). Reliability for the subscale scores was sound (i.e., Cronbach’s α from 0.70 to 0.80).…”

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