Cross-cultural Adaptation of an Instrument to Assess Coparenting: Coparenting Relationship Scale

Abstract

Coparenting refers to mothers and fathers articulating their efforts to raise their children. Currently, there are no instruments to measure this construct in Brazil. In this study, the adequacy of a cross-cultural adaptation of the Coparenting Relationship Scale (CRS) (Escala da Relação Coparental - ERC) was evaluated, examining evidence of semantic, conceptual, cultural, idiomatic, operational and measurement equivalence, and face validity. Two independent research groups adapted the CRS and then produced a unified version, completed by 171 couples with at least one child between 4 to 6 years of age. The precision of the subscales, measured using Cronbach’s alpha, varied between .16 - .83. Four subscales had good precision in the Brazilian sample, but the precision of the “Division of Labor”, “Coparenting Closeness”, and “Coparenting Agreement” subscales needs to be improved and additional evidence of the validity of this instrument must be examined, so the CRS can be used in Brazil.

The Swedish Brief Coparenting Relationship Scale: Psychometrics and Concurrent Validity Among Primiparous and Multiparous Fathers

“…Consistent with previous studies assessing cross‐cultural adaptations of the CRS (Carvalho et al, 2018; Pinto et al, 2019), all subscales were adequately or strongly correlated with B‐CRS total scores. As shown in Tables 1 and 2, Swedish fathers in our research reported high scores in the total B‐CRS and positive subscales in B‐CRS, while they exhibited low scores on negative subscales of B‐CRS.…”

“…The CRS has been validated by published studies for use in Portugal (Lamela et al, 2016; Pinto et al, 2019) and Brazil (Carvalho et al, 2018) and translated for use by researchers in about two dozen languages. However, to our knowledge, the CRS has been used in Sweden to date, nor has any other coparenting measure; therefore, validating the Swedish version of the CRS should be beneficial for future research on coparenting in Sweden.…”

Parental styles and coparenting in families with children with autism: cluster analysis of children’s behavior

“…The adaptation to Brazil (Carvalho et al, 2018) of the Escala de Relação Coparental (Coparenting Relationship Scale) consists of 35 items, assessed by a seven-point scale ranging from not true (0) to completely true (6), except for the Exposure to Conflict subscale, in which the response categories range from never (0) to very frequently (6). Its seven subscales are: (a) Coparental agreement (agreements or disagreements regarding parenting practices and issues related to child rearing); (b) Division of work (satisfaction with the contributions and the involvement of the partner in raising their children); (c) Coparental support (perception of the support received from the partner), (d) Support to the partner's parenting (perception of their own positive attitudes towards the partner's parenting), (e) Coparental sabotage (perception of the partner's behaviors that aim at undermine their parenting or relationship with the child); and (f) Exposure to conflicts (how much the parents expose the child to their disagreements about how to raise their children) and (g) Coparental proximity (degree to which coparenting can contribute to increase intimacy and strengthen the couple's relationship).…”

Relações entre Coparentalidade, Envolvimento Parental e Práticas Parentais de Pais e Mães de Famílias Binucleares

“…Souza 2018 Suporte/sabotagem com as três subescalas: apoio coparental, reconhecimento da parentalidade do parceiro e sabotagem coparental, que indicam a capacidade da díade parental de exercer uma postura de suporte mútuo; e Administração conjunta das interações familiares com as subescalas exposição a conflitos e proximidade coparental, que dizem respeito à divisão da liderança nos cuidados e da educação da criança, e às fronteiras estabelecidas com as famílias extensas. A versão da ERC utilizada no estudo é uma adaptação transcultural brasileira (Carvalho et al, 2018). Nessa versão, substituiu-se o termo "companheiro (a)" por "excompanheiro (a)" para aplicação com pais e mães de famílias binucleares (Lamela et al, 2016).…”