Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment – Chinese Version

Description

Early parent-child attachment is an important indicator of emotional socialization in individuals. The presence and nature of attachment between infants and their parents directly influence the infants’ emotional feelings, social behaviors, personality traits, and basic attitudes toward interpersonal relationships. Compared to adolescents who experience insecure attachment, those who establish a secure attachment relationship with their parents show higher self-esteem, better academic performance, and improved social skills, alongside lower levels of depression, anxiety, and feelings of alienation. They also exhibit fewer problems related to hostility, aggression, and social pressure. This indicates that parent-child attachment is a significant predictive variable for adolescents’ social adaptation, and good quality of parent-child attachment or secure parent-child attachment may serve as a protective factor for social adaptation.

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Purpose

To assess adolescents’ perceptions of their relationships with their parents and peers.

Test Year

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Administration Method and Scoring

This questionnaire includes items that ask about feelings towards one’s father or stepfather. Participants should read each item carefully and mark or circle an appropriate number based on their own feelings using the following scale: 从来不是 (1) “Never”, 不总是 (2) “Not always”, 有时是 (3) “Sometimes”, 经常是 (4) “Often”, 几乎总是 (5) “Almost always”.

Reliability and Validity

In Song Hairong’s research, the Alpha coefficients for the mother attachment subscale were 0.908, for the father attachment subscale were 0.912, and for the peer attachment subscale were 0.910. The Cronbach α coefficients for the father-son and mother-daughter attachment questionnaires are between 0.65 and 0.86.

Factors and Subscales

The questionnaire includes factors representing attachments to parents and peers and assesses how adolescents perceive their relationships with their parents.

Keywords

Parent-child attachment, secure attachment, emotional socialization, adolescents, social adaptation

Items in Chinese

1. 我爸爸尊重我的感受。
2. 我觉得我爸爸是一个好爸爸。
3. 我希望有一个和现在不一样的爸爸。
4. 爸爸接受现实的我。
5. 就我关心的事情,我想知道爸爸的看法。
6. 我觉得在爸爸面前表露我的感受没有用。
7. 当我为一些事情不安的时候,爸爸能觉察出来。
8. 和爸爸谈论我个人问题使我感到害羞或愚蠢。
9. 爸爸对我期望太多。
10. 我在爸爸旁边容易感到不安。
11. 我感受的烦恼比爸爸所知道的要多得多。
12. 当我们讨论问题的时候，爸爸会在乎我的看法。
13. 爸爸相信我的判断。
14. 爸爸有自己的事,所以我不愿意拿自己的事情去打扰他。
15. 爸爸帮助我更好地了解自己。
16. 我告诉爸爸我的问题和烦恼。
17. 我生爸爸的气。
18. 我从爸爸那里得不到很多关注。
19. 爸爸帮我一起讨论我的困难。
20. 爸爸理解我。
21. 当我因为某些事生气的时候，爸爸尽量理解我。
22. 我相信爸爸。
23. 爸爸不知道这些日子我正经受着什么。
24. 当我需要解除心头的烦闷的时候,我可以指望爸爸。
25. 如果爸爸知道我正在为一些事情烦心，他会向我了解有关情况。

Items in English

1. My father respects my feelings.
2. I think my father is a good dad.
3. I wish I had a different dad than I do now.
4. My dad accepts me as I am.
5. Regarding the things that concern me, I want to know my father’s opinion.
6. I feel it’s useless to express my feelings in front of my dad.
7. When I feel uneasy about something, my dad can notice it.
8. Discussing my personal problems with my dad makes me feel shy or foolish.
9. My dad has too many expectations of me.
10. I feel anxious easily when I am next to my dad.
11. I have many more worries than my dad knows about.
12. When we discuss issues, my dad cares about my perspective.
13. My dad believes in my judgment.
14. My dad has his own things going on, so I hesitate to bother him with my issues.
15. My dad helps me better understand myself.
16. I tell my dad about my problems and worries.
17. I get angry at my dad.
18. I don’t get a lot of attention from my dad.
19. My dad helps me discuss my difficulties.
20. My dad understands me.
21. When I get angry about something, my dad tries to understand me.
22. I trust my dad.
23. My dad doesn’t know what I am going through these days.
24. When I need to relieve my worries, I can count on my dad.
25. If my dad knew I was worried about something, he would ask me about it.

References

Armsden, G., & Greenberg, M. (1987). Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA).