PSI™-4

Parenting Stress Index, Fourth Edition

Purpose: Identifies parent–child problem areas

Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration, E-Manual, Download

Age range: Birth to 12 years

Time: 20 minutes

DETAILS:

Designed to evaluate the magnitude of stress in the parent–child system, the fourth edition of the popular PSI is a 120-item inventory that focuses on three major domains of stress: child characteristics, parent characteristics, and situational/demographic life stress. 

Features and Benefits

• Commonly used as a diagnostic or screening measure to evaluate the parenting system. 

• Helps identify at-risk or problem areas in the child's or parent's behavior. 

• Two domain scores and 13 subscales facilitate both treatment planning in relation to problem areas and the evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions. 

• Useful in family system evaluations such as custody evaluations or at-risk for dysfunctional parenting. 

• Major enhancements in this revision include improved cultural sensitivity of item language, increased internal consistency of scales, the addition of age-based norms at the domain and subscale level, enhanced factor loading of items on scales, the addition of T scores to enhance interpretation, and a new normative sample that includes fathers.