Parental Flooding During Conflict: A Psychometric Evaluation of a New Scale.

ABSTRACT: Parents who are overwhelmed by the intensity and aversive nature of child negative affect - those who are experiencing flooding - may be less likely to react effectively and instead may focus on escaping the aversive situation, disciplining either overly permissively or punitively to escape quickly from child negative affect. However, there are no validated self-report measures of the degree to which parents experience flooding, impeding the exploration of these relations. Thus, we created and evaluated the Parent Flooding scale (PFS), assessing the extent to which parents believe their children's negative affect during parent-child conflicts is unexpected, overwhelming and distressing. We studied its factorial validity, reliability, and concurrent validity in a community sample of 453 cou

SUBMITTER: Del Vecchio T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4996766 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature