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Latent structure and reliability of the Croatian version of the Fear of Intimacy Components Questionnaire: A study with adult children of divorced parents

The Fear of Intimacy Components Questionnaire (FICQ ; Sobral & Costa, 2015) is a 10-item instrument designed to assess the fear of intimacy in romantic relationships in terms of the fear of rejection (Fear of Losing the Other scale, FLO) and the fear of depending (Fear of Losing the Self scale, FLS). It was designed in Portugal and validated in Portuguese samples. We present in this article a Croatian adaptation of the FICQ that was administered in a larger study with adult children of divorced parents. A total of 344 (71% women) individuals completed the online questionnaire. The main purpose of the current work was to test the factorial validity and reliability of the FICQ data using confirmatory factor analysis. In addition, relationships with sociodemographics and variables related to parental divorce were examined. Overall, the results supported the theoretically grounded, complex structure of the instrument. Cronbach alpha and composite reliabilities statistics were satisfactory for both FLO and FLS. However, convergent and discriminant validity, as assessed using the average variance extracted statistics, were marginal in this sample. Further work on the psychometric properties of this instrument with samples from general population is needed to clarify its convergent and discriminant validity.

fear of intimacy, Fear of Intimacy Components Questionnaire – Croatian version, factor structure, reliability, romantic relationships, adult children of divorced parents

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