The Coparenting Relationship Scale—Father’s Prenatal Version

"Published online: 27 June 2018"
This study aimed to examine the psychometric characteristics of the Coparenting Relationship Scale when administered in fathers during pregnancy. During the first trimester of a partner’s pregnancy, 91 primiparous fathers completed the Coparenting Relationship Scale—Father’s Prenatal Version (CRS-FPV), and self-report measures of depressive and anxious symptoms, adult attachment, and partner’s relationship quality. The CRS-FPV revealed good internal consistency. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors: lack of coparenting support, coparenting conflict, coparenting disagreement, and coparenting undermining. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good model fit. Significant associations between the CRSFPV and the original CRS subscales were found. Hypothesized associations between the CRS-FPV subscales and individual (depressive and anxious symptoms and adult attachment) and dyadic (partner’s relationship quality) constructs were also significant. The present study suggested that the CRS-FPV is a reliable multidimensional measure to assess coparenting in fathers during pregnancy.
This study was conducted at Psychology Research
Centre (UID/PSI/01662/2013), University of Minho, and supported
by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the
Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds
and co-financed by FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020
Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007653). This study
was also supported by FEDER Funds through the Programa Operacional
Factores de Competitividade - COMPETE and by National
Funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia under
the project PTDC/SAU/SAP/116738/2010.
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