Development of the Observational Instrument to Assess Coparenting

Abstract

Coparenting is defined as the relationship between fathers and mothers to deal with the demands of raising children. Given the relevance of this relationship for family adjustment, the beneficiary designed and carried out her doctoral study, financed by FAPESP, with the aim of adapting the Family Foundations intervention program to Brazilian culture (which was renamed Familias Fortalecidas), offering online, evaluate and analyze the effectiveness of improving the coparenting relationship of couples transitioning to parenthood. Therefore, the general objective of the project will be to develop and validate an observational instrument for assessing coparenting, based on coding systems found from a systematic literature review. The data collected in the study will be stored and organized in spreadsheets from the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, version 23). After verifying the normality of the distribution of scores, descriptive and inferential analyzes will be carried out (Multiple Linear Regression and MANOVA).