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The aim of this study was to investigate whether clusters of common questions asked in clinical parenting interviews with parents of troubled adolescents could contribute to the empirical assessment of parenting dimensions. Questions were derived from clinical experience and theory, and were presented in an interview with 101 parents of adolescents referred to child psychiatric outpatient clinics for emotional and behavioural disorders. Fourteen questions were formed within the parenting domain of warmth, 12 questions from the domain of control, 5 questions were about autonomy granting and 6 questions about commitment. Scores clustered into 9 subgroups: Contact, Empathy, Appreciation, Setting Limits, Consistency, Monitoring, Parenting Priority, Involvement and Autonomy Granting. Raters also made an overall judgement of the presence of parental negative attributions during the interview. Interrater-reliability, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the subgroups were satisfactory, and bias of social desirable responding was limited. Directions for further research are suggested.
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