Describing a maladaptive parent-child relationship wherein a parent turns to a child for the satisfaction of emotional and/or relational needs, emotional incest remains an underinvestigated phenomenon. This is partly due to a lack of an empirically based measure of childhood emotional incest, and as a result, a 2-factor, 12-item scale was created based on expert opinion and a preliminary study of 319 university students. Each consisting of 6 items, the factors were called "Surrogate Spouse" and "Unsatisfactory Childhood." A follow-up study conducted with a second sample of 415 participants supports the 2-factor structure as a good fit to the data as well as the invariance of the scale across genders. The Childhood Emotional Incest Scale (CEIS) demonstrates good convergent validity with childhood emotional neglect (r = .58) and emotional abuse (r = .52) as well as good divergent validity with early memories of warmth and safeness (r = -0.54). The CEIS has also been found to be a stronger predictor of decreased life satisfaction and increased anxiety than the Parent-Focused Parentification subscale. Based on the values of internal consistency, composite reliability, and test-retest reliability, both factor and total scores of the CEIS can also be considered reliable. Therefore, as a measure of childhood emotional experiences for the retrospective assessment of adults, the 12-item CEIS can be utilized in the research of counseling, psychology, and education, particularly with regard to expanding knowledge into the roots and consequences of emotional incest and promoting parenting practices and marital/relational dynamics that are more functional. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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童年情绪乱伦量表 (CEIS)：发展、验证、交叉验证和可靠性。

描述一种适应不良的亲子关系，其中父母为了满足情感和/或关系需求而求助于孩子，情感乱伦仍然是一种未被充分调查的现象。部分原因是缺乏基于经验的儿童情绪乱伦测量方法，因此，根据专家意见和对 319 名大学生的初步研究，创建了一个 2 因素、12 个项目的量表。每个由6个项目组成，这些因素被称为“代理配偶”和“不满意的童年”。对 415 名参与者的第二个样本进行的后续研究支持双因素结构与数据的良好拟合以及跨性别量表的不变性。童年情绪乱伦量表 (CEIS) 在童年情绪忽视 (r = . 58) 和情绪虐待 (r = .52) 以及良好的发散效度与早期的温暖和安全记忆 (r = -0.54)。与以父母为中心的育儿子量表相比，CEIS 还被发现是生活满意度下降和焦虑增加的更强预测指标。基于内部一致性、复合信度和重测信度的值，CEIS的因子和总分也可以被认为是可靠的。因此，作为成人回顾性评估的童年情感体验的衡量标准，12 项 CEIS 可用于咨询、心理学和教育的研究，特别是在将知识扩展到情感乱伦和后果的根源和后果方面。促进更实用的育儿做法和婚姻/关系动态。