Validating the Assessment of Communication in Parenting Scale (COMPA) with a Sample of Parents and Children Flagged for Parental Abuse and Negligence — Oak Academic Publishing
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Validating the Assessment of Communication in Parenting Scale (COMPA) with a Sample of Parents and Children Flagged for Parental Abuse and Negligence
Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
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Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
1 Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal
2 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
3 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Objectives : This study aims to validate the three versions of the Assessment of Communication in Parenting Scale ( Avaliação da Comunicação na Parentalidade —COMPA), namely the parental, the child version (7 - 11 years old) and the adolescent version (12 - 16 years old), in a sample of subjects involved in a forensic context. Method : The study was conducted with a sample of parents (53 mothers, 26 fathers), children, and adolescents (41 males and 42 females) who had been identified as being at risk of neglect and/or parental abuse within the scope of existing promotion and protection processes at the Commission for the Protection of Children and Young People ( Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens —CPCJ). Results : The results demonstrated good psychometric properties with regard to internal consistency for the three versions of the COMPA with the exception of the COMPA-A Negative Communication Pattern subscale in relation to the mother. The results of the divergent validity analysis indicate that the COMPA assesses distinct constructs from the EMBU. Conclusions : The three versions of COMPA represent a reliable resource for the evaluation of parent-child communication patterns in contexts where abuse or neglect is suspected or has already occurred.
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