The Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES): psychometric properties and relationship to borderline personality symptomatology.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES; Mountford, Corstorphine, Tomlinson, & Waller, 2004), a measure designed to retrospectively assess exposure to parental invalidation. The ICES was administered to a sample of female college students along with measures of parental bonding and borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology. In contrast with previous findings, the ICES demonstrated excellent internal consistency within a nonclinical sample. It also correlated in the predicted directions with measures of parental bonding and BPD symptomatology. Taken together, these findings suggest that the ICES is a promising retrospective measure of parental invalidation. They also provide some support for the hypothesized link between parental invalidation and BPD symptomatology and suggest that additional research with clinical samples is needed.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Robertson, CD; Kimbrel, NA; Nelson-Gray, RO
Published Date
- June 2013
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 27 / 3
Start / End Page
- 402 - 410
PubMed ID
- 22984861
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1943-2763
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1521/pedi_2012_26_062
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States