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Do the Naive Know Best? The Predictive Power of Naive Ratings of Couple Interactions
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Baucom, Katherine J. W.; Baucom, Brian R.; Christensen, Andrew – Psychological Assessment, 2012
We examined the utility of naive ratings of communication patterns and relationship quality in a large sample of distressed couples. Untrained raters assessed 10-min videotaped interactions from 134 distressed couples who participated in both problem-solving and social support discussions at each of 3 time points (pre-therapy, post-therapy, and…
Descriptors: Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Marriage, Personality Traits
Marital Status and Satisfaction Five Years Following a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Traditional versus Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
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Christensen, Andrew; Atkins, David C.; Baucom, Brian; Yi, Jean – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: To follow distressed married couples for 5 years after their participation in a randomized clinical trial. Method: A total of 134 chronically and seriously distressed married couples were randomly assigned to approximately 8 months of either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Marital Satisfaction, Effect Size, Therapy
The Measurement of Marital Quality.
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Spanier, Graham B. – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1979
Discusses the need for the availability of measures of variables which assess marital quality, reviews the history of measurement in this area, identifies some conceptual and methodological issues of relevance, and then focuses most specifically on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale developed by Spanier. (Author)
Descriptors: Counselors, Divorce, Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage
A Confirmatory Analysis of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale.
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Spanier, Graham B.; Thompson, Linda – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1982
Evaluated the dyadic adjustment scale by reconsidering the factor structure of the scale and its subscales using a maximum likelihood, confirmatory factor-analysis procedure. Studied a new sample from the same geographical area. High reliability was confirmed for the overall scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Divorce, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure