An evaluation of an interview assessment of marriage.
An interview assessment of marriage relationships is described. It is shown to have good inter-rater reliability, high consistency across the accounts of both marriage partners and to be resistant to methodologic bias. A four-year follow-up study demonstrated high predictive validity to later marriage breakdown. The marriage measure also showed a strong association with behavioural deviance in the children. The intercorrelations between individual measures of various aspects of the marriage and the summary are given. A shortened version of the interview is described and preliminary findings are given on its validity.
D000328:Adult; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D004243:Divorce; D004644:Emotions; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D011336:Probability; D011594:Psychometrics; D012923:Social Class; D013997:Time Factors