Un instrumento para la evaluación del perdón en el ámbito del divorcio y la separación

Resumen

Current contributions of research on adaptation to divorce and separation show that forgiveness towards the former couple has an important place in this process. Therefore, instruments to evaluate this construct in the specific field of divorce are needed. In this study we present an instrument for the assessment of forgiveness in divorce-separation. The Cuestionario de Perdón en Divorcio-Separación (CPD-S) is a questionnaire created in Spanish, composed of 5 items, whose aim is the evaluation of forgiveness towards the former partner. Data were collected in a sample of 223 divorced parents from different autonomous comunities of the Spanish state, and 160 of their children aged between 4 and 18 years. Factor analysis extracted a single factor explaining 48 percent of the total variance. Our results suggest that CPD-S appears to be a reliable and valid instrument, with good internal consistency (Cronbach�s alpha= 0.77) and adequate construct validity (convergent, discriminant and predictive) supported by its relations with measures of adaptation to divorce, satisfaction with life and disposition to coparent, in the case of parents, and conduct problems in children. Forgiveness of the former spouse is the only predictor of divorce adjustment in the parents that compose our sample.