This study, conducted by Dr. Selenga Gürmen and her colleagues, aimed to improve perceptions of mothers and fathers of primary school-aged children about co-parenting by examining their perceptions of this topic, to examine the structural differences between mothers and fathers and the measurements of these differences, and finally to adapt the "Co-Parenting Inventory", previously developed and used in Western culture, for Turkish researchers.
As a result of the study, it could be said that Turkish parents' perception of co-parenting is multidimensional (i.e., cooperation, conflict, and triangulation), and a 3-factor structure was suggested to Turkish parents in line with this perspective.
The difference between mother and father in co-parenting dimensions was found to be that fathers perceived this concept as more cooperative and less conflictual.
Overall results suggest that the researchers and practitioners may use this measure to reliably assess coparenting qualities of parents of preschool-aged children.
Acar, İ. H., Ece, C., Saral, B., & Gürmen, S. (2021). Evaluating psychometric properties of the Coparenting inventory with Turkish mothers and fathers of preschool children. Current Psychology, 41(11), 7777–7787.
