Eltern-Belastungs-Inventar
High parental stress is both a major threat to parents' psychological stability and a risk factor for their children's development. Under high stress, parents may find it difficult to meet their demands in raising and caring for their child.
The Eltern-Belastungs-Inventar [Parenting Stress Inventory] (EBI; Tröster, 2011) was developed on the basis of the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) by R.R. Abidin (1995) as a diagnostic procedure to assess parental stress in parents of children of toddler and preschool age. It provides reliable indications of hazards in the parent-child system and can serve as a basis for indication decisions.
Two main sources of parental stress are distinguished:
- The child's behaviors and characteristics that result in specific parenting demands (child domain).
- The impairment in coping in their parental function (parenting domain).
The questionnaire of the diagnostic procedure records with a total of 48 items in 12 subscales:
By differentiating the individual subscales, it is possible to identify the areas in which there are risk situations. In this way, targeted support or intervention services can be implemented in the families at an early stage.
More information
For an overview of publications on the Eltern-Belastungs-Inventar (EBI), see EBI Publications.
The EBI was published by Hogrefe-Verlag in 2011 and can be obtained online from the Testzentrale Göttingen.
A high level of stress for parents not only endangers their psychological stability, but also represents a risk factor for the development of children. Parents who are under a high level of stress are not only impaired in their well-being, they also find it difficult to fulfill their tasks in raising and caring for the child. An early detection of endangered situations due to high parental stress thus opens up the chance to counteract an impairment of the parent-child interaction and to prevent an endangerment of the child's development by a targeted support of the parents and the family.
Teresa Mann wrote her master's thesis on the stress experience of single mothers. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Tröster and Dr. Sarah Lange. In the research project, personal experiences and attitudes of single mothers were recorded by means of an online questionnaire in order to create stress profiles and identify characteristics of a risk group. For this purpose, the Eltern-Belastungsinventar (EBI; Tröster, 2011) was used in addition to other standardized procedures.
For more information, see. Sample of the study.
Contact
Contact
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Tröster If you have any questions, please contact the secretariat by e-mail .