Nurture-Preparedness Assessment for the Childless Adults in China

Abstract

Since the role of caregivers at all stages of their offsprings development has a significant impact on the formation of sound personalities, assessment tests of the ability of caregivers to provide emotional support to their offspring can help reduce the probability of problems for adolescents during their formative years. This study aims to initially develop a scale for Nurture-Preparedness Assessment for the Childless Adults in China. Combined with the classical psychological theories of Freud, Erikson and Maslow, and under the basis of the parents expectation and the Bond of Kinship, primarily constructed the positive and negative six aspects of the scale, a total of 31 items. After discrimination analysis, the final 26 scale items. Meanwhile, the reliability and validity of the scales were assessed by analyzing the internal consistency and validity factors. It should be noted that this experiment is a preliminary exploration, so the results are controversial and need to be further explored.