Beyond overwhelmed: A new measure of the functional impact of toxic stress on parents of young children

This study investigates the reliability and construct validity of the Functional Impact of Toxic Stress for Parents (FITS-P) measure in an online crowdsourced pilot sample (n = 202) and a pediatric clinic sample (n = 889). The objective of the FITS-P is to provide a low burden (i.e., four items) measure for capturing aspects of the parental side of the toxic stress equation, specifically defining toxic stress as being severe enough to go beyond...