Application Research Of Parental Bonding Instrument For Vocational College Students

Objective:To explore the factor structure of Parental Bonding Instrument(PBI) in a sample of Chinese college students, to test its reliability and validity in vocational college students, and to explore the relationships among parental rearing patterns, childhood abuse experience and attachment types.Method:A total of 681 college students were recruited for this study. Using SPSS for exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis and validity analysis;Using Lisrel8.7 for Confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach's a coefficient, Guttman Split-half Coefficient were adopted to analyze the reliability of the PBI. The validity of the PBI were assessed by concurrent validity.Results:(1) Exploratory factor analysis showed that three factors were better:care, encouraging autonomy and control, and the results of confirmatory factor analyses indicated that this model provided a reasonable good fit for Chinese college students.(2)The reliability:The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for M-PBI and F-PBI is 0.729 and 0.747,respectively; the split-half coefficient is 0.752, 0.726, the a coefficient of six sub-scales ranged from 0.736 to 0.848 for M-PBI, and from 0.668 to 0.838 for F-PBI.(3)Criterion-related validity:Correlation between parents care, encouraging autonomy and control of PBI and attachment avoid factor, attachment anxiety factor, parents hating factor, parents ignoring factor is significant.(4)Regression analysis results:Parents hating factor, and father control factor entered the regression equations of attachment avoid variable; and father control, father ignoring, and mother control entered the regression equations of attachment anxiety variable.Conclusion:This study indicates that the three-factor model of PBI is adaptable to Chinese college students.The Chinese version of PBI is a reliable and valid assessment of parental rearing style and is suitable for using among Chinese undergraduates.