Family Belief Inventory – Parent Version (FBI-Parent)

A decent youth knows what kind of people to avoid and what kind to befriend.

Teenagers who get involved with undesirable friends end up getting into serious trouble and ruining their futures.

Youths do not always conform to the behavior of their peer groups.

Parents should not interfere with their youths' friends because the teenager will be very angry at the parents.

Teenagers who look for and find undesirable friends were not taught proper values by their parents.

Parents might occasionally offer advice about an adolescent's choice of friends.

Teenagers should respect their parents' judgments and follow their advice about friends.

Teenagers try to upset their parents by hanging out with the wrong type of people.

Parents should not upset their teenager by disapproving of the way he/she spends own money.

Adolescents should be allowed some freedom in deciding how their money is to be spent.

Teenagers who waste their money on junk learned these bad habits from their parents.

Teenagers should always follow their parents' advice about spending money.

Adolescents should help their parents by spending their own money on clothing, books, and other necessities.

If a person does not learn to spend money wisely as a youth, he/she will end up deeply in debt as an adult.

Parents should encourage their youths to save some money for the future.

Teenagers waste their parents' hard-earned money and don't care about their parents' financial position.

Adolescents should not invite back into their home friends who have annoyed their parents.

Teenagers who bring all of their loud, messy friends over to visit want to harass their parents and drive them crazy.

Generally, family members should treat each other's friends with courtesy.

Adolescents should not choose friends who are unpleasant and discourteous.

Parents should not anger teenagers by complaining about their friends' rude behavior.

When visiting someone else's home, adolescents should be pleasant to their friend's parents.

Parents who cannot get along with their children's friends have serious personal inadequacies.

Parents should speak out when their teenager's friends are rude or else the teenager will also become rude and discourteous.

There are some experiences which teenagers can better share with their friend than their families.

Parents should not limit the amount of time a youth spends away from home because this is likely to make the youth very angry.

Adolescents spend a lot of time away from home because their parents nag them a lot and make them miserable at home.

Parents know best how much time an adolescent should spend with friends and at home with parents.

It is important for teenagers to spend some time with their parents.

Teenagers should value a close relationship with their family and should not have to be asked to spend time at home.

Teenagers who spend too much time with their friends will be influenced in bad directions and will do things that could ruin their futures.

Teenagers who spend most of their time with their friends are trying to hurt their parents.

Parents should allow youths to have some telephone privileges.

Teenagers who spend hours on the telephone wish to anger their parents.

Parents should not restrict their adolescents' phone privileges because the teenagers might become very angry with their parents.

Youth should respect their parents' needs and ask permission before they use the telephone.

Teenagers learn to talk too much on the phone from parents who talk too much on the phone.

Teenagers who are constantly on the phone create serious problems for the family because important calls won't get through.

Teenagers should know that it is wrong to tie up the phone and should limit their calls without being asked.

Parents who are expecting a call should firmly instruct their adolescents to refrain from using the phone until the call is received.

Adolescents who stay out late with their friends are likely to get involved with sex, drugs, or alcohol and make mistakes which could ruin their lives.

When teenagers have a good reason to stay out later than planned, it is all right for parents to grant an extension.

Truly responsible youths should come home at a reasonable hour whether or not their parents set a curfew.

Youths should be discouraged from staying out past 2 A.M.

Teenagers should follow their parents' curfew because parents know what is best for them.

Adolescents stay out past their parents' curfew because their parents were so strict that they forced the adolescents to rebel.

Parents should not restrict their youths' curfew because the teenagers might get very angry at their parents.

Teenagers who come home late want to make their parents worry about them.

Responsible youths should be neat and tidy and take care of their belongings without parental nagging.

Parents have a right to request that youths try to keep their room looking decent.

Teenagers who are not taught to take proper care of their belongings grow up to be irresponsible and sloppy in their lifestyle and work habits as adults.

Teenagers should obey parents' requests to clean their rooms properly or be punished.

Occasionally, parents might permit their youths to have a vacation from cleaning their room.

Adolescents who refuse to clean their room or take care of their belongings were taught these bad habits by their parents.

Parents should avoid nagging their teenagers about cleaning their room because nagging could lead to a bad parent-child relationship.

Teenagers who fail to clean their rooms are purposely showing blatant disregard for their parents' feelings.

Parents should avoid criticizing their teenagers for talking back because the teenagers will get very angry.

Adolescents should always talk to their parents in a courteous, respectful manner.

Youths should never be allowed to show disrespect toward their parents.

Teenagers talk back to their parents in order to hurt their feelings and get even with them for earlier punishments.

Youths who talk rudely to their parents grow up to be delinquent adults who cannot respect authority.

It is natural for teenagers to get angry with their parents.

Teenagers treat their parents rudely because they have observed the parents treating each other disrespectfully.

There is reason for parental concern when youths begin to mouth off towards their parents.

Teenagers should understand that school comes before work and that they are too young for a late-night job.

It is wrong for parents to make their youth angry by refusing to permit them to have a part-time job.

It is important for teenagers to complete high school whether or not they have an after-school job.

A job can teach a teenager responsibility.

Adolescents who want an after-school job do not receive enough money from their parents.

If a youth works after school, his/her grades will seriously suffer, crippling his/her chances of going to college or getting a better job after high school graduation.

Teenagers should obey their parents' advice concerning jobs since the parents have had a lot of experience with work.

Teenagers work after school to get even with their parents for not giving them enough money.

Teenagers should always do their share of work around the house without being asked.

The responsibility for doing chores around the house is something that the whole family should share.

Youths should unquestioningly do any tasks that their parents assign.

If a youth really hates doing chores it is better to do them yourself than to risk getting the youth angry at you.

It is reasonable to expect youths to help clean around the house.

If a youth fails to do what a parent asks it is because the parent has not earned the youth's respect.

A youth who fails to learn responsibility at home through doing chores will grow up to be lazy and irresponsible.

Teenagers fail to complete their chores because they wish to punish their parents and make them do the extra work.