Adaptation of the Parentification Questionnaire for the Brazilian Context

Abstract Parentification involves a role reversal phenomenon between family subsystems, including role distortions and hierarchy inversion. The purpose of this study was to adapt and search for validity evidence of the Parentification Questionnaire for the Brazilian context. After translation procedures, the authors applied the instrument in 868 adults of four geographic regions of Brazil, of which 55.4 percent were women. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed the solution of three parentification factors (i.e., emotional parenting, instrumental parenting and perceived unfairness) as adequate, with satisfactory internal consistency rates, following the construct theory. As expected, the authors also found relations with other variables; for example, people who presented parentification indicators in their speeches displayed higher levels in the three factors of the construct; while women displayed higher levels of parentification than men. The Brazilian version of the instrument showed satisfactory validity evidence and appropriate reliability indicators.亲职化（Parentification）是一种存在于家庭子系统间的角色反转现象，具体表现为角色扭曲与层级倒置。本研究旨在针对巴西语境适配亲职化问卷（Parentification Questionnaire）并验证其效度证据。经标准化翻译流程后，研究者将该研究工具施测于巴西四个地理区域的868名成年人，其中55.4%为女性。探索性因素分析与验证性因素分析结果显示，三因子亲职化结构（即情感亲职、工具性亲职与感知不公）的模型拟合效果良好，且内部一致性系数处于可接受水平，符合建构理论的预期。正如研究预期，本研究还发现该量表得分与其他变量存在显著关联：例如，自述存在亲职化表现的个体在该量表三个因子上的得分均更高；同时女性的亲职化水平显著高于男性。最终，该问卷的巴西版本展现出良好的效度证据与可靠的信度指标。