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Assessment of positive and negative relationship adjustment in marriage
Author(s) -
WHISMAN MARK A.,
LI ANGELA
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12103
Subject(s) - psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , measurement invariance , positive relationship , association (psychology) , sample (material) , measure (data warehouse) , convergent validity , social psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , statistics , internal consistency , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , database , computer science , psychotherapist
Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate, in a probability sample of married individuals ( N = 2,071), the psychometric properties of a measure of positive and negative relationship adjustment, based on perceived frequency of positive and negative partner exchanges or interactions. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses support the presence of two correlated factors, and multigroup confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for configural and metric invariance for gender, racial/ethnic, and age groups. The measure demonstrated good convergent validity in its association with another measure of relationship adjustment. Results support the use of this brief and easily administered measure to assess positive and negative aspects of relationship adjustment, particularly in situations in which the correlates of relationship adjustment are to be compared across demographic groups.