Family Empowerment Scale – FES
Measures empowerment in families whose children have emotional, behavioral, or physical disabilities across family, service system, and community/political…
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Measures empowerment in families whose children have emotional, behavioral, or physical disabilities across family, service system, and community/political…
Measures the presence and practice of various traditions and rituals within a family system.
Measures the social-environmental characteristics of families across relationship, personal growth, and system maintenance dimensions.
Measures the degree of inconsistency and unpredictability in family patterns across nurturance, financial, discipline, and mealtime domains.
A multidimensional self-report scale designed to assess family dynamics, peer relationships, self-esteem, and environmental satisfaction in youth.
Measures the frequency of emotional expressiveness within an individual's family across positive and negative, dominant and submissive dimensions.
Measures dimensions of family functioning including warmth, communication, worries, conflict, and rituals/support.
Measures an individual's perception of the health of their family of origin across the dimensions of autonomy and…
Measures the internal strengths, durability, and coping resources of the family unit under stress.
Measures individuals' retrospective perceptions of their fathers' involvement, emotional responsiveness, and roles during childhood and adolescence.
Measures the accumulation of normative and non-normative life events and changes experienced by a family unit.
Measures parents' beliefs regarding the source of control over their children's development and behavior, distinguishing between internal control…
Measures a family's repertoire of resources in financial, social support, esteem, and mastery domains to manage stress.
Measures parental self-efficacy beliefs across multiple domains of parenting in parents of young children.
Measures parenting outcomes and family functioning across nine domains to evaluate home visitation programs.
Measures the negative impact and stress experienced by family members due to a relative's alcohol or drug use.
Measures the physical and emotional well-being of individual family members, focusing on tension, energy, and emotional states.
Measures the self-reported needs of family members and caregivers of individuals who have acquired a brain injury.
Measures the psychological preoccupation and life impact experienced by family members caring for individuals with concurrent mental health…
Measures family structure, organization, and cohesiveness across dimensions of cohesiveness, sharedness, clarity of leadership, and clarity of rules.
Measures the occurrence and perceived impact of stressful family events and health-related difficulties over the past year.
Measures family relationships and communication-connection from the perspective of adolescents.
Measures the level of family stress and pressure, including ethnic-specific challenges, experienced by family systems.
Measures communication and connection within the family, both between spouses and within the nuclear family.
Measures family communication patterns, specifically affirming and incendiary communication, during times of conflict or trouble.
Measures the severity and magnitude of family relationship problems as perceived by the respondent.
Measures family resilience constructs and organizational patterns to identify strengths and resources in families experiencing adversity.
Measures the magnitude of parent-child relationship problems as perceived by the parent.
Measures family values, beliefs, and ethnic/cultural identity that shape a family's worldview and coping processes.
Measures the extent to which conditions for building collaborative parent-teacher relationships are present in the classroom across four…
Measures a family's collective sense of coherence, reflecting the degree to which they view family life as comprehensible,…
Measures family resilience and protective factors across four dimensions: fewer stressors, adaptive appraisal, social support, and compensating experiences.
Measures the helpfulness of various sources of social support to families raising young children.
Measures adolescents' perceptions of the positive and negative cognitive and affective dimensions of their relationships with parents and…
Measures the strength, type, and value of routines and integration patterns within family life.
Measures the presence and strength of traditions within a family across holidays, life changes, religious occasions, and special…
Measures the level of unpredictability in family routines, behavior, and environment across multiple domains.
A brief 3-item scale designed to measure a parent's satisfaction with their children's behavior, their own parenting, and…
Measures explanatory or attributional style in children, assessing how they explain the causes of positive and negative events…
Measures family relationships, peer influences, self-esteem, and environmental satisfaction in youth.
Measures the emotional and behavioral stability of children across depression, suicidal ideation, anger, and aggression domains.
Measures an individual's perception of the health of their family of origin across the dimensions of autonomy and…
Measures the perceived emotional availability of parents, focusing on sensitivity, responsiveness, and supportiveness.
Measures maternal beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral reactions toward their children's negative emotions, distinguishing between emotion-coaching and emotion-dismissing styles.
Measures the quality and dimensions of paternal involvement and the father-child relationship during childhood and adolescence.
Measures adolescents' perceptions of their mother's expertise, trustworthiness, and accessibility during communication.
Measures parents' beliefs regarding the source of control over their children's development and behavior, distinguishing between internal parental…
Measures maternal resilience in mothers of children with developmental difficulties or special needs across six key dimensions.
Measures parental self-efficacy beliefs across multiple domains of parenting in parents of young children.
Measures family functioning across multiple dimensions to identify structural, organizational, and transactional patterns of the family unit.
Measures parenting outcomes and family functioning across nine distinct domains for evaluation of home visitation programs.
A self-report measure designed to assess retrospective perceptions of dysfunctional parenting styles during the first 16 years of…
Measures parental emotional and behavioral responses to positive and negative child behaviors.
Measures the psychological preoccupation and life impact experienced by family members caring for an individual with concurrent mental…
Measures parental emotional distress, guilt, and shame in response to their child's traumatic experience.
Measures the occurrence and perceived impact of stressful family events and health-related difficulties over the past year.
Measures communication and connection within the family, specifically with the father, mother, and the nuclear family as a…
A brief self-report scale for parents to assess communication and connection within the couple and the nuclear family.
Measures a parent's satisfaction and happiness with various aspects of their child's behavior and relationship.
Measures the severity of problems a person perceives in their family relationships.
Measures the frequency and nature of parent involvement in their child's school and academic life, as well as…
Measures the magnitude, severity, or course of parent-child relationship problems as perceived by the parent.
Measures the extent to which conditions supporting parent-teacher partnerships are present in the classroom across four dimensions: Approach,…
Measures family resilience and protective factors across four dimensions: fewer stressors, adaptive appraisal, social support, and compensating experiences.
Measures a parent's perception of their child's affiliation with deviant peers and their concern regarding negative peer influence.
Measures adolescent attachment security to parents and peers through dimensions of trust, communication, and alienation.
Measures the quality of communication between adolescents and their parents, focusing on openness and communication barriers.
A brief 3-item self-report measure designed to assess a parent's satisfaction with their children's behavior, their own parenting,…
Measures a child's perception of the social support, understanding, and regard they receive from their parents.
Measures explanatory or attributional style in children, assessing how they explain the causes of positive and negative events…
Measures parents' trust in their child's school and school principal.
A self-report instrument designed to determine indicators of emotional and behavioral stability in children across depression, suicidal ideation,…
Measures dimensions of parenting style (autonomy, control, consistency, child-centeredness, detachment) and parent-reported child competence.
Measures the perceived emotional availability of parents, focusing on sensitivity, responsiveness, and supportiveness.
Measures maternal beliefs and reactions to children's negative emotions, distinguishing between emotion coaching and emotion dismissing styles.
Measures the frequency and depth of parent-adolescent communication regarding the health, social, and moral consequences of sexual behavior.
Measures adolescents' perceptions of their mother's expertise, trustworthiness, and accessibility in communication.
Measures the quality and patterns of communication between parents and adolescents, focusing on openness and communication barriers.
Measures maternal resilience and coping resources in mothers of children with developmental, behavioral, or educational difficulties.
Measures the strength of an individual's attachment and relationship quality with their parents.
Measures an adolescent's perception of their parents' disapproval of antisocial behaviors.
Measures structural, organizational, and transactional characteristics of families across multiple dimensions of family functioning.
Measures parental attitudes regarding the avoidance of discipline and the perceived effectiveness of their disciplinary practices.
A self-report measure designed to assess perceived dysfunctional parenting styles, specifically indifference, abuse, and overcontrol, during the respondent's…
Measures parental emotional responses and behavioral urges in response to common positive and negative child behaviors.
Measures an adolescent's perception of their parents' attitudes and disapproval regarding youth substance use.
Measures parental emotional distress, guilt, and somatic reactions following their child's traumatic experience.
Measures parental attitudes and socialization practices regarding the use of aggression and violence by and around their children.
Measures a parent's self-reported happiness and satisfaction with various aspects of their child's behavior and their relationship.
Measures Diana Baumrind's parenting styles (permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative) from the perspective of the child, separately for mothers…
Measures the frequency of parent involvement with their child, the school/teacher, and teacher-initiated contact from the parent's perspective.
A 30-item parent-report questionnaire that assesses the presence and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in children…
Measures parental bonding through two dimensions: care and overprotection/control, as remembered by the respondent from their childhood up…
Measures parental involvement with and control over a student's exposure to television, music, and friends.
Measures parental perception of and concern regarding the deviant behavior and negative influence of their child's close friends.
Measures parental involvement in their child's schoolwork, parent-initiated contact with the school, and teacher-initiated contact with the parent.
Measures the quality and patterns of communication between adolescents and their parents.
Measures parents' health locus of control and beliefs regarding the factors that influence their children's health.
Measures a child's perception of the support, understanding, and acceptance they receive from their parents.
Measures parents' trust in their child's school and the school principal.