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- The Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire: Validity evidence from PortugalPublication . Morais, Inês; Teplitzky Carneiro, Francis Anne; Sinval, J.; Costa, Pedro Alexandre; Leal, I.Background: Family resilience refers to a family’s capacityto face and manage adversities, emerging as a stronger andmore resourceful unit. A family system approach enlargesthe lens to the broad relational network, identifying poten-tial resources for resilience within the immediate andextended family. This approach emphasizes a family’sinnate ability to adapt in the face of adversities.Objective: This study aims to test the psychometric proper-ties of the Walsh Family Resilience Questionnaire(WFRQ) using a sample of Portuguese caregivers withchildren aged between 10 and 15 years.Method: A total of 267 caregivers of children aged 10 to15 years completed a sociodemographic questionnaire andthe WFRQ. Analyses were performed to evaluate theWFRQ’s validity evidence based on the internal structure(i.e., dimensionality and reliability) and on its relationshipto other variables.Results: The findings supported a 31-item version of theWFRQ with one third-order latent factor, three second-order factors, and nine first-order factors for the Portu-guese population. The WFRQ exhibited satisfactory valid-ity evidence based on the internal structure and relation toother variables.Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study demonstratethe suitability of the WFRQ as a holistic measure to gaugeresilience at the family level, going beyond individualassessments.Implications: This instrument holds significant utility infamily resilience research and clinical interventions involv-ing families.
- Factorial structure, measurement invariance and reliability of the Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC) in a sample of Portuguese parentsPublication . Fernandes, Marília; Morais, Inês; Santos, Carolina; Guedes, Maryse; Ribeiro, Olívia; Fernandes, Carla; Pires, Eva; Santos, Ana Filipa; Santos, Antonio J.; Veríssimo, ManuelaAbstract: Emotion regulation is important for socioemotional and mental health development, with lifelong implications. The Emotion Regulation Checklist (ERC; Shields & Cicchetti, 1997) is a widely used tool to assess emotional regulation and dysregulation in children. Despite wide use and translate into several languages, inconsistent findings have been found in its factorial structure across studies. This study addresses this gap by examining the factorial structure, reliability, and measurement invariance of the ERC in a Portuguese sample. A sample of 789 parents (mostly mothers, 90.9%) with children between 3 to 12 years old (49.3% preschoolers and 50.7% School-age) completed the scale. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) revealed that the original two-factor model (Emotion Regulation and Lability/Negativity) reached an acceptable fit, however three items had to be removed, and two item residuals correlated. Full invariance was achieved regarding boys and girls. While, regarding age, only configural invariance was achieved, meaning that, different loadings should be expected between preschool and school-age children. Considering the final model the Cronbach’s alphas (α) was .66 for Emotion Regulation and .80 for Lability/Negativity. These findings provide some support for the use of the Portuguese parents’ version of the ERC with preschool and school-age children.