Imprevisibilidade familiar e perspectiva temporal de futuro: Retro-FUS versão portuguesa

Abstract

Family unpredictability, as inconsistency of parental behavior in meeting children’s needs and family regulation, has been associated with problem behavior, and psychopathology development. Unpredictability can occur in environmental risk conditions (poverty, emigration, unemployment), or be associated with parental stressors (divorce, alcoholism, mental diseases). The common point of these stressors is that they compromise familiar routines that enable security, and predictability. We present data from the first Portuguese translation and adaptation of Retro-FUS (261 College young adults, aged from 18 to 29). Negative correlations between retrospective family unpredictability and future time perspective corroborate the theoretical model.