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Books and Journals

Handbook for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection, 4th Edition (2005)
Contains all versions of measures used in interpersonal acceptance-rejection research and clinical applications. The handbook also contains information about the reliability and validity of all measures, as well as information about test construction, how to use and score the measures, and how to interpret the scores.

The Warmth Dimension: Foundations of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory
In addition to summarizing national, international, and cross-cultural comparative (holocultural) data collected by researchers over half a century, the book lays out parental acceptance-rejection theory’s (PARTheory) epistemological assumptions and postulates. The Warmth Dimension offers valuable insights for multidisciplinary audiences in academic, research, and practitioner-oriented settings. Raising many important but heretofore unanswered questions, this book contributes substantially toward a common conceptualization and vocabulary for the many disciplines dealing with families and children.

They Love Me, They Love Me Not: A Worldwide Study of the Effects of Parental Acceptance and Rejection
Specifically, drawing from a representative sample of 101 of the world's adequately described sociocultural systems, the work asks:

  1. Do children and adults everywhere, regardless of differences in culture, race, language, or gender tend to respond in the same way when they experience themselves to be accepted or rejected by their parents?
  2. Do similar psychological, social, and environmental conditions induce parents the world over to behave toward their children in parallel ways?
  3. How is it methodologically possible to determine if these things are true?

Cross-Cultural Research in Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (2005).
Theme Issue of ETHOS, Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

Special Issue: Corporal Punishment, Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Youths’ Psychological Adjustment (2006).
Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Research, Journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

Special Issue: Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory Studies of Intimate Adult Relationships (2008).
Special Issue of Cross-Cultural Research, Journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

Acceptance: The Essence of Peace. Selected Papers from the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. Fatos Erkman (Ed.). Istanbul: Incekara Press. 2008. 274 pp. This book is a compilation of selected papers from the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection that was held in Istanbul, Turkey in June of 2006.

Interpersonal  Acceptance and Rejection: Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts. I. Kourkoutas & F. Erkman (Eds.), Brownwalker Press. 2011. 257pp. This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Second International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection that was held in Crete, Greece in July of 2008.

Measures and Software

The Rohner Center has an extensive list of research and clinical measures available. Most are available in up to 43 different languages. For a complete listing of research measures and software used in the study of interpersonal acceptance and rejection, click here.

For more information, please visit Rohner Research Publications.