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Can Spouse Support be Accurately and Reliably Rated? A Generalizability Study of Families with Disruptive Boys
Author(s) -
Lavigueur Suzanne,
Tremblay Richard E.,
Saucier JeanFrançois
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01065.x
Subject(s) - spouse , generalizability theory , psychology , situational ethics , social support , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , sociology , anthropology
The present study addressed two questions: Can support be accurately and reliably rated? What are the relative setting and subject effects on observed spouse support? From a sample of families with a disruptive boy, the supportive or stressing behaviors of the father towards the mother were rated by trained observers in four different standardized situations. A generalizability study was carried out to assess the relative contribution of variance due to subjects, situations, and raters on the support and stress scores. Results indicate a reliable inter‐rater assessment of observed spouse support. Spouse support appears to be controlled both by personal and by situational characteristics.