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PREDICTING DIVORCE AT MARITAL THERAPY INTAKE: WIVES' DISTRESS AND THE MARITAL STATUS INVENTORY *
Author(s) -
Crane D. Russell,
Newfield Neal,
Armstrong Duane
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1984.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - guttman scale , marital therapy , psychology , clinical psychology , distress , discriminant validity , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , marital status , predictive validity , reliability (semiconductor) , psychometrics , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , internal consistency , environmental health , population , power (physics) , physics , personality , quantum mechanics
The Marital Status Inventory (MSI), a measure of divorce potential was given to couples in six independent samples. Scores from the five clinical sites and one marital enrichment sample (N = 241 couples) were used to provide adequate reliability, discriminant validity and predictive validity data. Compound probability for the five clinical sites supports the contention that, overall, wives' are more distressed than their husbands. The MSI was also able to identify couples who later divorced. However, the Guttman properties of the MSI, previously identified, were not replicated. Clinical implications of the higher wives' scores for prediction of divorce and marital therapy are discussed.