Validation française du questionnaire d’évaluation de l’environnement invalidant durant l’enfance : the Invalidating Childhood Environments Scale (ICES)

Conclusion L’importance de la perception des pratiques parentales et du climat familial dans le développement des troubles psychologiques est discutée. Introduction The Invalidating Childhood Environments Scale (ICES) was developed by Mountford et al. (2007) in order to measure the parental invalidation of the child's emotional needs from the adolescent or young adult perception. Objective The aim of this study is the validation in French of the ICES based on its factorial structure and psychometric property. Method Participants included 585 freshmen university students (186 males, 399 females), aged 18–22. Results Results show that the French version had good psychometric validity. Factorial analyses indicate a two dimensions construct structure identical for each parent. These dimensions were labeled “personal distress” and “inability of empathy” in reference of Batson's studies on altruism (Batson, 1991). The convergent validity of the ICES is supported by the relationship between the scores on the different dimensions and the depression symptomatology. Conclusion Implications of the perception of these two dimensions of empathy and the family environment in the psychological health are addressed.

Source: European Review of Applied Psychology - January 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research