Parental Stress and Coping Inventory

ABSTRACT

The Parental Stress and Coping Inventory was developed for mental health professionals serving low-income and low-resource parents. A sample of 1,567 parents completed a revised Family Adjustment Measure for the exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses conducted in this study. Findings resulted in three scales that explained 53% of the variance.

KEYWORDS:

• Family adjustment
• parental distress
• factor analysis

Declaration of Conflicting Interests

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The data collected for this article were supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, Grant No. 90FM0039-01-00.

Authors' Note

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Andrew P. Daire

Andrew P. Daire earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and research couple and family stress along with brief interventions to positively impact stress and relationship functioning. Daire is Dean for the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jennifer E. Gonzalez

Jennifer E. Gonzalez earned her M.A. in Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling with research interests in child and adolescent survivors of sexual abuse, family adjustment with parents of children with special needs, and IPV in LGBTQ couples. Gonzalez is an academic advisor at Full Sail University.

Vanessa N. O'Hare

Vanessa N. O'Hare earned her M.A. in Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling with research interests in stress and couple adjustment in parents of children with special needs. O'Hare is a Counselor Education Ph.D. student at Old Dominion University.