Title: | Parenting Stress Index – Fourth Edition (PSI-4) |
Author: | Abidin, R. R. |
Year: | 2012 |
Description: | The Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition (PSI-4) is designed to evaluate the magnitude of stress in the parent-child system (Ages 0 to 12 years), the fourth edition of the PSI is a 120-item inventory that focuses on three major domains of stress: child characteristics, parent characteristics, and situational/demographic life stress. The PSI-4 is commonly used as a screening and triage measure for evaluating the parenting system and identifying issues that may lead to problems in the child’s or parent’s behavior. This information may be used for designing a treatment plan, for setting priorities for intervention, and/or for follow-up evaluation. Other common settings for administration of the PSI-4 include medical centers where children are receiving medical care, outpatient therapy settings, pediatric practices, and treatment outcome monitoring.
Two domains, Child and Parent, combine to form the Total Stress scale. The Life Stress scale provides information about the amount of parent stress caused by factors outside the parent-child relationship.
The Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition Software Portfolio (PSI-4-SP) allows you to administer either the 120-item PSI-4 or the 36-item PSI-4 on-screen or to hand-enter item responses from either form and produces up to four reports. In addition, the software allows you to e-mail an invitation to complete the PSI-4 or PSI-4-SF to anyone with an e-mail address and helps you manage these assessments. An updated PSI bibliography is included within the software.
The abbreviated version of this test is the Parenting Stress Index – Fourth Edition Short Form (PSI-4-SF) |
Age Range: | Children |
Administration: | Individual |
Inventory: | 1 Complete Kit
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Publisher: | Psychological Assessment Resources Inc. – PAR Inc. |
Qualification Level: | Level B or 2 |
Test Category: | Emotional Intelligence |