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Studies about the specific relationships' quality with the father are scarce. The quality of Relationships Inventory -QRI proposed by Pierce, Sarason and Sarason (1991), evaluates three important dimensions of relationships perceived by the adolescent: Support, Depth and Conflict. The present research aimed to test the structure of QRI father´s version (Neves & Pinheiro, 2006; Matos, Pinheiro & Marques, 2013 -Portuguese version), with a Confirmatory Factor Analysis and to study the relations between the QRI dimensions. Sample comprised 312 adolescents, 171 females and 141 males, aged between 12 and 17 (M= 13.77, DP= 1.16). The three-factor solution proposed by Pierce et al. (1991) was confirmed in this Portuguese adolescent sample. High positive associations between Support and Depth subscales, (r= .76) and low negative associations between these subscales and the Conflict subscale (r= -.13 and r= -.09) were found in the father's version of QRI. Support and Depth, in the relationship with the father, seem to be especially related to each other, presenting negative associations with Conflict. The results suggest that this instrument, with a three factor structure, can be used in future researches namely to study preventive interventions with adolescents and their families designed to diminish vulnerability to psychopathology, namely depression.

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Studies have shown a high prevalence of depression in adolescents. Researchers also found that psychosocial impairment is associated with depressive symptomatology in adolescence. It is now well established that parental psychopathology, mainly maternal depression, may be associated with a variety of maladaptive outcomes for children. The topic of resilience in parents, however, has been neglected. It is important to study the resilience in parents as a protective factor against the development of depressive symptomatology in children, and the variables that moderate and mediate this relationship. The main aims of this study are to examine the potential protective role of parents' resilience regarding the development of children's depressive symptoms and the moderating effect of children psychosocial functioning. The sample was composed by 130 adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years. Psychosocial functioning was assessed with the Adolescent

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IntroductionThe postpartum depression screening scale (PDSS; Beck & Gable, 2002) is a widely used measure to assess women's depressive symptoms after their children's birth. Pereira et al. adapted, validated and developed a short-version of PDSS for Portuguese women (PDSS-21).ObjectiveTo examine the factor structure of the PDSS–21, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in a sample of Portuguese women in the postpartum period.MethodsThe sample was composed of 208 women (mean age = 32.72; SD = 4.49) who completed the PDSS–21 approximately at the 6th week postpartum. CFA was used to test the model suggested by prior exploratory factor analyses of PDSS–21. AMOS software was used.ResultsAfter two items were deleted and some errors were correlated, CFA indicated a good fit for the second-order factor (χ2/df = 1.793; CFI = 0.957; GFI = 0.889, rmsea = 0.062; P [rmsea ≤ 0.05] < 0.056). The 19–item PDSS showed excellent internal consistency (α = 0.92) and the four dimensions presented Cronbach's alphas ranging between good (α = 0.83) and excellent (α = 0.93).ConclusionsThese findings suggest that the 19–item PDSS obtained through CFA is a reliable and valid measure to assess depressive symptoms among women in the postpartum period.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Marques, C. (2017). Parenting scale self-test: estudo da estrutura fatorial. Millenium, 2(2), 67-57. m 2 58 RESUMO Introdução: A Parenting Scale Self Test de Gottman e Declaire (1997) avalia o que os pais pensam sobre as emoções e a forma como lhes reagem e pretende determinar a forma pelo qual os pais ensinam os seus filhos a reconhecer, a expressar e a lidar com as emoções. Objetivo: O objetivo deste estudo é avaliar as propriedades psicométricas da PSST, nomeadamente a estrutura fatorial e a consistência interna. Métodos: A amostra consistiu em 355 pais (65.07% do género feminino e 34.93% do género masculino), cujos filhos adolescentes têm idades compreendidas entre os 14 e os 20 anos. A natureza do presente estudo é quantitativa, analítica e transversal. Foi realizada uma análise fatorial exploratória através do método de componentes principais com rotação direct oblimin. Resultados: A estrutura da escala revelou-se diferente da original, apresentando 3 fatores relativos aos estilos parentais face às emoções: fator 1-estilo reprovador (explica 13.75% da variância total); fator 2 -estilo explorador (explica 11.41% da variância total) e fator 3 -estilo aceitador (explica 6.27% variância total). A consistência interna da escala revelou valores de alfa de .87, .85 e .70, respetivamente. Conclusões: Esta investigação constitui um passo inicial no estudo e na adaptação das propriedades psicométricas da PSST numa amostra da população portuguesa, e é um importante contributo para futuras investigações e prática clínica.Palavras-chave: Estrutura fatorial; Parenting Scale Self-Test; Estilos parentais; Adolescentes ABSTRACT Introduction: The Parenting Scale Self-Test (Gottman & Declaire, 1997) evaluates what parents think about emotions and the way they react to them. It also tries to determine the ways by which the parents teach their children to recognize, express and deal with emotions. Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate some psychometric properties of PSST, namely its factorial structure and internal consistency. Methods: The sample consisted of 335 parents (65.07% female and 34.93% male) whose children are between 14 and 20 years of age. The nature of the present study is quantitative, analytical and cross-sectional. An exploratory factorial analysis was conducted using the principal components method with direct oblimin rotation. Results: The structure of the scale changed from the original, presenting in the Portuguese sample three parenting styles towards emotions: 1 st factor -disapproving style (explaining 13.75% of total variance); 2 nd factor -explorer style (explaining 11.41% of total variance) and 3 rd factor -accepting style (explaining 6.72% of total variance). The internal consistency of the scale showed alpha values of .87, .85 and .70, respectively. Conclusions: This research constitutes an initial step in the study and adaptation of the psychometric properties of the PSST in a sample of the Portuguese population, and is an important contribution for future research and clinical practice.