COMPA-P (Addressed to parents):

Expression of Affection and Emotional Support; Parental Availability for Communication; Metacommunication; Trust / Communication parents-children; Confidence / Communication sons / as-parents

COMPA-A (Aimed at children between 7 and 11 years old):

Parental Availability for Communication; Confidence / Communication sons / as-parents; Expression of Affection and Emotional Support; Metacommunication; Negative Communication Pattern

COMPA-C (Directed to children between 12 and 16 years old):

Parental Availability for Communication; Expression of Affection and Emotional Support

Portugal, Alda

Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Colégio Novo, Coimbra, 3001-802 Coimbra, Portugal

E-mail: aaldaportugal@gmail.com

The purpose of this instrument is to analyze the perceptions of parents and children about the communication they maintain. For this, it has three versions aimed at the evaluation of parents and children of different ages

Test-retest reliability shows temporal stability, as well as, most internal consistency values are above .60 and .80 (in all three versions of the scale). Also, the levels of internal consistency proved satisfactory for research and clinical practice

• Individual and collective
• Paper

To make the correction of the results by subscale of the three versions, the items are added and divided by the total number of items on the scale. The higher the score on each subscale, the better the perception of parento-filial communication. However, the fifth dimension of the COMPA-A is composed of negative elements and, therefore, high results in this subscale reveal a negative perception about parento-filial communication

Portugal, A. M., & Marques, I. (2014). Escala de Avaliação da Comunicação na Parentalidade (COMPA): Desenvolvimento e validação de uma medida da comunicação parento-filial. Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana, 32, 85-103.