Psychometric evaluation of an inventory for assessment of parental rearing practices

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Abstract
The EMBU [Own Memories Of Child Rearing Experience Scale], an instrument which was designed to assess one''s memories of parental rearing behavior, was psychometrically evaluated. Principal component factor analysis of data of a mixed sample of 841 noninstitutionalized phobic individuals revealed 4 factors which were termed rejection, emotional warmth, overprotection and favoring subject, thereby contributing to the convergent (cross-national) reliability and validity of the structural model of perceived parental behavior. Besides the utilization of data from aforementioned phobic sample, the scales'' internal consistency was assessed in data of 5 additional samples, which consisted of 277 normals, 40 agoraphobics, 29 social phobics, 21 height phobics and 38 obsessive-compulsive neurotics and found to be very satisfactory. In the normal and mixed phobic sample, validity measures were acceptable and to be independent of the parent''s sex. The fact that retrospective data is being measured with the scales does not threaten the reliability and validity of gathered information due to faulty recall or falsified accounts.

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