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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
From clinical towards research interview: parenting problems with troubled adolescents
Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen1, Are Holen
1Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate whether clusters of common questions asked in clinical parenting interviews with parents of troubled adolescents could contribute to the empirical assessment of parenting dimensions. Questions were derived from clinical experience and theory, and were presented in an interview with 101 parents of adolescents referred to child psychiatric outpatient clinics for emotional and behavioral disorders. Fourteen questions were formed within the parenting domain of warmth, 12 questions from the domain of control, five questions were about autonomy granting and six questions were about commitment. Scores clustered into nine subgroups: Contact, Empathy, Appreciation, Setting Limits, Consistency, Monitoring, Parenting Priority, Involvement and Autonomy Granting. Raters also made an overall judgment of the presence of parental negative attributions during the interview. The inter-rater reliability, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the subgroups were satisfactory, and the bias of socially desirable responding was limited. Directions for further research are suggested.
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