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The Structure and Measurement of Parent-Adolescent Trust of Middle School Students

LI Jian1,2, LI Yi-ming1, ZOU Hong1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2008-10-15 Published:2008-10-15

Abstract: Middle school students and their parents were interviewed,and three open questionnaires were designed to gather the characteristics of parent-adolescent trust,and then were subjected to content analysis to identify major forms and items of parent-adolescent trust questionnaire(PATQ)in China.184 middle school students and 169 parents were included in the first measurement,while 495 middle school students,336 fathers and 358 mothers were included in the second measurement.Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that adolescents' trust comprised three dimensions:Honesty and Promise-keeping,Dependability,and Sharing Confidences;Fathers' trust comprised four dimensions:Honest and Obeying Rules,Independence,Self-restraint and Respecting Privacy;Besides the four dimensions of fathers' trust, mothers' trust consisted of Suspicion in addition.Confirmatory Factor Analysis confirmed PATQ's factorial validity. Internal consistency analyses and correlation analyses showed that PATQ had suitable reliability and high validity.

Key words: parent-adolescent trust, structure, measurement

CLC Number: 

  • G449
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