Father's Presence, FPQ Test - the question form

1. I could/can talk with my father about anything.

2. As a child, I always felt warm and safe when I was with my father.

3. I felt close to my father.

4. My father is very important to me.

5. I have always felt my father’s presence behind me, supporting my goals or actions.

6. I respected my father.

7. I have felt inspired by my father.

8. My father holds a special place in my life; no one can replace him.

9. I need my father.

10. My father and I enjoyed being together.

11. I want to be like my father.

12. When I think back on past events involving my father, I feel angry.

13. I feel disappointed in my father.

14. My mother always encouraged me when I talked with my father.

15. My mother was affectionate toward my father.

16. My mother respected my father's point of view and judgment.

17. My mother liked it when my father and I did things together.

18. My mother liked it when my father touched her.

19. My mother loved my father very much.

20. My mother appreciated what my father did for us.

21. I liked the way my mother spoke about my father.

22. My mother really understood/understands my father.

23. My mother wanted/wants me to be closer to my father.

24. My mother valued and respected my father.

25. My mother had a low opinion of my father.

26. My mother was critical of my father.

27. My mother thought my father was stupid.

28. When I had difficulty with homework, I could count on my father's help.

29. My father helped/helps me learn many new things.

30. My father attended/attends my school and showed/shows interest in my academic progress.

31. My father and I did/do interesting things together.

32. My father attended/attends sports events in which I participated/participate.

33. I could/can approach my father with a problem and would always receive advice or help from him.

34. My father helped/helps me plan my future.

35. My father was concerned about my safety.

36. My father taught/teaches me to tell right from wrong.

37. My father listened/listens to me whenever I wanted/want to tell him something.

38. My father often said/says that he loves me.

39. My father understood/understands me.

40. My father encouraged/encourages me.

41. When I was a child, my father often ignored me.

42. When I was little, I liked to sit on my father's lap.

43. My father often hugged and/or kissed me.

44. As a child, my father let me sit on his shoulders.

45. When I was young, my father often held me in his arms.

46. My father liked to hold my hand or put his arm around my waist or shoulders.

47. My father wrapped me in a blanket when I was getting ready to go to sleep.

48. When I was a child, my father changed my diapers and bathed me.

49. I liked to hold on to my father.

50. When I was a child, my father liked to talk with me.

51. My mother and father truly enjoyed/enjoyed their marriage.

52. My parents' relationship has made/makes me feel good.

53. My father and mother supported/support and helped/helped each other.

54. I hope my family will be just like my parents' family.

55. My father and mother understood/understand each other well.

56. My father and mother were always emotionally close to each other.

57. My father and mother were open and honest with each other.

58. My father listened to my mother.

59. My father valued/values what my mother did/does for our family.

60. When my parents were together, I felt some discomfort around them.

61. I often thought about how two people as different as my mother and father could have formed a family.

62. My father and/or mother did not love each other.

63. My mother could not/cannot tolerate my father.

64. I believe that there is a Heavenly Father or God who determines our entire life.

65. I pray or otherwise communicate with God.

66. My religious or spiritual life is important to me.

67. I doubt the existence of a Heavenly Father who created everything in this world.

68. I doubt the presence of a Heavenly Father who loves me and cares for me.

69. Life is a matter of chance and has no purpose or meaning.

70. My life difficulties lead me to rely on God to help me.

71. Girls need fathers.

72. Boys need fathers.

73. Fathers influence the way their sons and daughters relate to their friends.

74. Fathers influence the values and behavior of their sons and daughters.

75. Fathers influence their sons' and daughters' success or failure at school.

76. Fathers influence how their children relate to the opposite sex in later relationships.

77. Fathers influence the nature of their children’s religious beliefs and behavior.

78. A child’s biological mother and biological father are equally important in the child’s life.

79. My mother loved/loves her father very much.

80. My mother felt/feels warm and safe when she is with her father.

81. My mother and her father (my grandfather) enjoyed/enjoy spending time together.

82. My mother felt/feels close to her father.

83. My mother respected/respects her father.

84. My mother missed/misses her father when she was/is separated from him.

85. My mother often said that she felt as if she did not know her father.

86. My mother's father had a negative influence on her life.

87. My mother was disappointed in her father.

88. My mother seemed tense and on guard when her father approached her.

89. My mother hated/hates her father.

90. My mother was/is afraid of her father.

91. My father loved/loves his own father very much.

92. My father felt/feels warm and safe when he is with his father.

93. My father and his father enjoyed/enjoy being together.

94. My father felt/feels close to his own father.

95. My father was/is able to talk with his father about any topic.

96. My father respected/respects his own father.

97. My father always wanted to be like his father.

98. My father's father held/holds a special place in his life, and no one could replace him.

99. My father felt/feels that he truly did not/does not really know his own father.

100. When my father recalled/recalls his life with his own father, he usually became/becomes angry.

101. My father's father (my grandfather) had/has a negative influence on my father's life.

102. My father hated/hates his father.

103. My father's relationship with his own father has a strong influence on my life.