CICPSI, Faculty of Psychology, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Coimbra, Portugal.
Fam Process. 2023 Dec;62(4):1592-1607. doi: 10.1111/famp.12838. Epub 2022 Nov 14.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a worldwide event that has caused significant changes in the daily lives of individuals and families. The combined effect of the pandemic and the stress associated with major life cycle changes, such as the transition to parenthood, is yet to be understood. The aim of the current study was to validate the Portuguese version of the recently developed COVID-19 Household Environment Scale (CHES) and examine its psychometric properties in a sample of mothers who had given birth during the pandemic. The CHES is a self-report measure assessing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in household cohesion and conflict and includes two sections. Section 1 contains 25 descriptive items pertaining to sociodemographic and household characteristics and COVID-19 stressors. Section 2 encompasses household cohesion and conflict, assessing any change in household experiences and activities following the onset of social distancing. The participants consisted of 342 mothers, aged between 19 and 50 years (M = 31.43; SD = 4.38). A confirmatory factor analysis supported the original CHES bifactor structure of household cohesion and conflict, which obtained an acceptable fit (CFI = 0.900, RMSEA = 0.065). Correlations between household cohesion and conflict and family cohesion and dyadic coping contributed to developing the construct validity of this scale. Furthermore, both CHES subscales demonstrated very good internal consistency. Further research is warranted to assess the CHES in other cultural contexts. This is a useful tool to assess change in family households due to the unprecedented adverse pandemic experience.
2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行是一场全球性事件，对个人和家庭的日常生活造成了重大变化。大流行和与重大生命周期变化（如过渡到为人父母）相关的压力的综合影响尚待了解。本研究的目的是验证最近开发的 COVID-19 家庭环境量表（CHES）的葡萄牙语版本，并在大流行期间分娩的母亲样本中检验其心理测量特性。CHES 是一种自我报告的衡量标准，用于评估 COVID-19 在家居凝聚力和冲突方面的后果，包括两个部分。第 1 部分包含 25 个描述性项目，涉及社会人口学和家庭特征以及 COVID-19 压力源。第 2 部分包括家庭凝聚力和冲突，评估在社交距离开始后家庭经历和活动的任何变化。参与者由 342 名年龄在 19 至 50 岁之间的母亲组成（M = 31.43；SD = 4.38）。验证性因素分析支持家庭凝聚力和冲突的原始 CHES 双因素结构，该结构具有可接受的拟合度（CFI = 0.900，RMSEA = 0.065）。家庭凝聚力和冲突与家庭凝聚力和对偶应对之间的相关性有助于发展该量表的结构效度。此外，CHES 的两个分量表都表现出非常好的内部一致性。需要进一步的研究来评估该量表在其他文化背景下的情况。这是一种有用的工具，可以评估由于前所未有的大流行经历而导致家庭家庭的变化。
