Partners’ Dyadic Coping in India: Psychometric Properties and Validity of the Tamil Version of the Dyadic Coping Inventory

Psychometric properties of the interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire among couples in India

“…We hypothesized that in line with the original validation of the IERQ, the IERQ-T would demonstrate a 20 item, four-factor structure. In line with previous research involving married couples in India (Kanth et al, 2021), we expected that IERQ-T would demon strate measurement invariance across dyads, type of marriage and family. In accord with previous validations of IERQ-T (e.g., Ray-Yol et al, 2020), we expected that IERQ-T would demonstrate construct validity with dyadic coping and relationship satisfaction.…”

“…Particular ly, it measures the couples' self-report of his/her own and their partner's behavior and common dyadic coping during the experience of a common stressor. In the present study, we used a Tamil version of the DCI (Kanth et al, 2021), which consists of 29 items on five dimensions reported by oneself and the partner: positive DC, delegated DC, negative DC and common DC. The items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 ("very rarely") to 5 ("very often").…”

“…The internal consistency of the RAS in the original study was found to be .86. In the present study, we used the Tamil version of the RAS translated and validated in an earlier study (Kanth et al, 2021).…”

Communication Pattern, Dyadic Adjustment, and Parenting Practices among Married Couples in India: Mediating Role of Dyadic Coping

“…The following measures used in the current study were translated and validated in two recent studies involving married couples in India (Indumathy, 2021; Kanth et al, 2020). The measures were translated from the original language into Tamil—one of the widely spoken languages in India and South Asia by over 76 million people and an official language in India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore (Lewis et al, 2009).…”

“…Particularly, it measures couples’ self-report of his/her own (dyadic coping by self) and their partner’s behavior (dyadic coping by partner), and their joint efforts to cope (common dyadic coping) during the experience of a common stressor. The Tamil version of the DCI used in this study (Kanth et al, 2020) consists of 29 items, designed to assess dyadic coping by self (12 items; e.g., “When my partner feels he/she has too much to do, I help him/her out”), and dyadic coping by partner (12 items; e.g., “My partner does not take my stress seriously” ) and common dyadic coping (5 items; e.g., “I am satisfied with the support I receive from my partner and the way we deal with stress together.”). The items are rated on a five-point scale from 1 ( very rarely ) to 5 ( very often ).…”