Adaptação do instrumento Abbreviated Penn State Worry Questionnaire para a co-preocupação e validação portuguesa

Abstract

Co-worry is associated with positive results (e.g., mutual support and comfort) and negative results (e.g., negative results to the relationship as well as to the people involved) and can significantly contribute to the development and maintenance of anxious and depressive states. Through a transversal and quantitative design, this study purpose was to adapt and validate the Abbreviated Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ-A) to co-worry in romantic relationships (CO-PSWQ-A) and to analyze its psychometric properties. Since the analytical procedure involves an exploratory factor analysis (AFE) and a confirmatory one (AFC), the general sample was randomly divided into two subsamples. Subsample 1 corresponds to AFE, is composed of 129 participants, and subsample 2 to AFC with 126 participants. The CO PSWQ-A presented satisfactory internal consistency indexes (a = .90). The instrument showed construct validity. The positive correlation with PSWQ-A showed convergent validity and discriminant validity was demonstrated by the lack of correlations between CO-PSWQ-A and The Sexual Pleasure Scale. The results point to good psychometric properties of the CO-PSWQ A and suggest it as a useful and valid instrument for measuring co-concern in romantic relationships.

Date of Award	2021
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	Patrícia M. Pascoal (Supervisor) & MAGDA SOFIA VALADAS DOMINGUEZ ROBERTO (Supervisor)