Description of the Questionnaire on Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection

Abstract

Many psychological theories describe the connection between parental behaviour
and children and the character traits that develop in them. One of the most prominent
theories is Rohner’s Parental Acceptance Rejection Theory (PART). He is the author of several
tests describing interpersonal acceptance/rejection between parents and children, parents
and their parents, the perception of the parents themselves and their way of parenting,
etc. In his manual he presents the original metric characteristics of the tests measuring the
perception of acceptance or rejection.
The aim of this paper is to describe the instruments that measure the child’s perception
of parental acceptance-rejection, as well as the metrical characteristics obtained in
the tests, adapting them to the Macedonian population. The questionnaires were given to 96
children and 192 parents. The following instruments were adapted: PARQ for children,
PARQ for parents, PARQ for adults, PARQ for intimate partners. The following metric characteristics
of the tests have been obtained: Cronbach Alpha of PARQ for children for the
mother is .906, for the father .93; Cronbach Alpha of PARQ for parents amounts to .823 for
the mother, while for the father it is .81, Cronbach Alpha of PARQ for adults for assessment
of the mother is .91, while for the father it is .90. Accordingly, there are indications that
these instruments could be used for the Macedonian population for research purposes, but
also in the clinical practice after the appropriate standardization procedures are implemented.