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NEGATIVE PARENTING TEST

Based on the work of Dr. John Philip Louis and his colleagues, the Negative
Parenting Test examines whether you are struggling with common damaging patterns
as a consequence of the way your parents treated you.

To take the Negative Parenting Test, indicate your answer to each of the
following statements below.

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QUESTION 1 OF 30

When I was young, my parents...

Did too many things for me instead of letting me do things on my own.

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The IDRlabs Negative Parenting Test (IDR-YPT) was developed by IDRlabs. The
IDR-YPT is based on the work of Dr. John Philip Louis, Ph.D., Alex M. Wood,
Ph.D., and George Lockwood, Ph.D., who authored the tool. The IDR-YPT is not
associated with any specific researchers in the field of personality psychology,
counseling psychology, or any affiliated research institutions.

The test delivers feedback such as the following:



Competitiveness: Parents who are very competitive and seek status often pressure
their children to achieve, and they see situations as competition, even if there
is no explicit winner or loser. They do not celebrate their children’s
improvements unless the children make the parents look good by being “special”
or getting “first place.” Since such parents are often comparing their children
to others, they easily get frustrated when their children do not outperform the
majority, and they may unconsciously withhold love from the child because of
their own need to be seen as special. Children of competitive parents may
develop low self-worth, struggle with depression, become disengaged with their
own feelings, feel guilty about not being good enough, or identify with the
parents’ demands and attempt to present a grandiose façade.

Rejection: Parents who degrade and reject their children often exhibit
criticisms, insults, and dismissive behavior toward them. They often humiliate
their children, threaten to banish them from the parental relation or the house,
and say aloud that they wish their children had never been born. Since a child’s
self-worth gets eroded by constant rejection, children of such parents are often
plagued by self-doubt, despondency, fear, passivity, aimlessness, and similar
concerns.

Deprivation: Parents who deprive their children of emotional affection create
adults who, in turn, will also become emotionally inhibited. Such people are
often unable to seek out or ask for closeness in their own lives, have angry
outbursts when their needs are not met, exhibit low stress tolerance, and tend
toward unstable relationships in adulthood. Adults who were emotionally deprived
by their parents are often unaware that they are even having problems with
affection and closeness, and their partners often feel that they do not know
“the real person” underneath the distant façade. Emotionally deprived
individuals will, furthermore, often prefer to talk about what is being done or
thought rather than what is being felt. Because of the hurt that they are
carrying inside and their diminished capacity for emotional intimacy, children
who grow up with emotionally distant parents tend to have failed relationships
as adults – alternating between coldness and neediness, suffering from poor
attachments to others, and having low self-esteem.

The IDRlabs Parenting Test was informed by the Parenting Inventory’s criteria
for how you were treated by your parents when you were young, as published in
Louis, J.P., Wood, A.M., & Lockwood, G. (2018). Psychometric validation of the
Parenting Inventory - Revised (YPI-R2): Replication and Extension of a commonly
used parenting scale in Schema Therapy (ST) research and practice, PLoS One, 13,
11: e0205605. Louis, John & Ortiz, Vida & Barlas, Joanna & Lee, Joyce &
Lockwood, George & Chong, Wayne & Louis, Karen & Sim, Patricia. (2021). The Good
Enough Parenting early intervention schema therapy based program: Participant
experience. PLOS ONE. 16. e0243508. 10.1371/journal.pone.0243508.

The work of Dr. Louis and his colleagues has also informed some of the
diagnostic criteria in the form of the widely used psychological instrument, the
Parenting Inventory, for clinical use especially by qualified mental health
professionals. The present test is intended for educational purposes only.
IDRlabs and the present IDRlabs Parenting Test are independent of the above
researchers, organizations, or their affiliated institutions.

The IDRlabs Parenting Test is based on a famous and well-regarded inventory for
the assessment of the clinical concept of parenting. However, free online tests
and quizzes such as this one are solely first takes and cannot provide accurate
assessments of your potential condition. Hence, the test is intended to be used
for educational purposes only. A definitive psychometric assessment can be made
only by a qualified mental health professional.

As the publishers of this free online parenting test, which allows you to screen
yourself for the characteristics and manifestations of your parenting; we have
striven to make the test as reliable and valid as possible by subjecting it to
statistical controls and validation. However, free online quizzes such as the
present parenting test do not provide professional assessments or
recommendations of any kind; the test is provided entirely “as-is.” For more
information about any of our online tests and quizzes, please consult our Terms
of Service.


WHY USE THIS TEST?

1. Free. This Negative Parenting Test is delivered to you free of charge and
will allow you to obtain your scores related to viewing your parents as
manifesting competitiveness and status-seeking, degradation and rejection,
emotional inhibition and deprivation, overprotection and overindulgence,
punitiveness, and controlling behaviors.

2. Clinically oriented. The feedback delivered by this instrument is based on
the work of Ph.D.s and is designed to deliver a clear clinical picture of the
respondent’s current perceptions as to parenting as measured according to
standardized items.

3. Statistical controls. Statistical analysis of the test is conducted to ensure
maximum accuracy and validity of the test scores.

4. Made by professionals. The present test has been made with the input of
people who work professionally with psychology and individual differences
research.





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This test provides information on negative parenting patterns for educational
purposes only. The information is provided “as-is” and should not be construed
to constitute professional services or warranties of any kind. For more, please
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