Engaging Parents And Families To Support The Recovery Of Districts And Schools
Category: Families and Communities
The Emotional Availability Scales (EA Scales) measures the quality of parent-child or adult-child interactions. Emotional availability refers to “the adult’s ‘receptive presence’ to the child’s emotional signals” (Biringen and Easterbrooks, 2012). Created by Dr. Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D., in 1987, the instrument is currently in its 4th edition. The EA Scales consist of both adult and child subscales and can be completed in approximately 20 minutes.
Administration Information
Length
20 minutes
Qualifications
3-day face-to-face, in vivo, group training or self-paced distance training using reading, lecture, and practice on 10 training videos required.
Access and Use
Price
Contact author at: http://www.emotionalavailability.com/
Open Access
No
Use in Research
De Falco, S., Esposito, G., Venuti, P., & Bornstein, M. H. (2008). Fathers' play with their Down syndrome children. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52(6), 490-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01052.x
McMahon, C. A., & Meins, E. (2012). Mind-mindedness, parenting stress, and emotional availability in mothers of preschoolers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.08.002
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Biringen, Z., & Easterbrooks, M. A. (2012). Emotional availability: concept, research, and window on developmental psychopathology. Development and psychopathology, 24(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579411000617
