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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FORGIVENESS SCALE
Author(s) -
Hargrave Terry D.,
Sells James N.
Publication year - 1997
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.1752-0606.1997.tb00230.x
Subject(s) - psychology , respondent , concurrent validity , scale (ratio) , interpersonal communication , construct validity , reliability (semiconductor) , test validity , validity , forgiveness , interpersonal relationship , sample (material) , perspective (graphical) , checklist , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , computer science , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , political science , law , internal consistency , cognitive psychology
This paper reports on the development, validity, and reliability of a self‐report instrument designed to assess a respondent's perspective of pain resulting from relational violations and work toward relational forgiveness based on framework proposed by Hargrave (1994a). Presented here is the five‐stage procedure used in the development of the Interpersonal Relationship Resolution Scale. Construct validity and reliability were determined from an initial sample of 164 subjects. Concurrent validity of the scal was supported by another sample of 35 respondents who took the Interpersonal Relationship Resolution Scal, the Personal Authority in the Family System Questonnaire, the Relational Ethics Scale, the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation‐Behavior scale, and the Burns Depression Checklist. Finally, a predictive validity study of the scale was performed with a clinical and nonclinical sample of 98 volunteers. Data are presented that support the validity and reliability of the instrument, as will as the final version of the scale.