Investigating The Reliability and Validation of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) in students

Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) is a widely used measure for assessing perceived parenting. There are different ideas about whether the PBI is a two-factor or a three-factor rule and recent studies have proposed five different factor structures. The current study aimed to survey of reliability coefficients of PBI models and Anchoridentity of the model fit of PBI in Iranian population. The participants of this study were 256 female high school students who were selected by cluster multiple-stage random sampling method. The results indicate that PBI models in care factors had right internal consistency and in other factors had tolerable or weak internal consistency. Also, the confirmatory factor analysis showed support for three-factor structures. Furthermore, the results of this research indicate that among the three-factor models of PBI, the Kendler model fitted the data and is a valid and reliable instrument of the parent-child relationship for students.