The Family-Couple-Parenting Questionnaire: Development of a Measure for Long-Term Couples and Young Adults.
This work describes the construction of family-couple-parenting (FCP) questionnaire, a new measure of three aspects related to the developmental path toward parenting choices, within the perspective of the family life cycle and attachment theory. Two studies are reported. Study 1 reports the development of the FCP questionnaire and its psychometric properties. Study 2 assesses the FCP's nomological validity by investigating group differences on FCP factors and links between FCP factors and romantic attachment (experience in close relationships-revised) and recalled parental bonding (parental bonding instrument). Participants were 791 Italian participants: 405 young adults (203 students, 202 workers) and 193 couples (91 childless-by-choice, 102 parents-to-be). The results suggest that the FCP's stable psychometric structure and strong theoretical basis make FCP a useful instrument for research related to the path to parenthood.
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy lucia.carli@unimib.it.
Lucia Leonilde
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Carli
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Elena
E
Anzelmo
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Elisa
E
Gatti
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Alessandra
A
Santona
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Stefania
S
Pozzi
Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Marcello
M
Gallucci
D000328:Adult; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
attachment; caregiving; parental choice; parenthood; voluntary childlessness