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ABSTRACT
Defines parental tolerance for misbehavior and provides reliability and validity data for two newly developed parent report measures of tolerance, the Child Rearing Inventory (CRI) and the Annoying Behavior Inventory (ABI). Data were collected from 262 primary care-takers of children between the ages of 3 and 10 years, of whom one-third were African American. Examination of the internal consistency and test-retest data for the CRI and the ABI provided evidence of adequate reliability. Scores on the CRI and ABI were unrelated to social desirability, socioeconomic status, and race. Parental tolerance for misbehavior is associated with parental perceptions of their child's behavior as problematic and child treatment status. Results of this study provide preliminary evidence of good reliability and present initial validity of the CRI and the ABI.