Validity of a Brief Measure of Parental Affective Attitudes in High-Risk Pres…

The current study investigated psychometric properties of the Family Affective Attitude Rating Scale (FAARS) for assessing parents’ thoughts and feelings about their child,coded from a 5-min speech sample. Parental affective attitudes derive from previous experiences of parenting and child behavior, representations of the parent–child r lationship and broader parenta characteristics. Data…