The confiict level between the respondent’s parents was
measured by five items on the Confiict Awareness Scale
(Grych and Fincham 1993), asking how often (1) their
biological parents argue about money, (2) argue about the
children’s education, (3) argue about the children, (4)
absolutely disagree with each other and (5) have severe
confiicts. The five-response Likert scale ranged from
1 = never until 5 = always and exhibits high internal
consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = .85). Data was imputed
when a maximum of two answers were missing.
The confiict scale was composed by summing the five item
scores and ranges from 0 to 20.