title: Family concepts and their measurement: things are seldom what they seem.
abstract: An empirical examination of the degree of association of dimensions elicited by two family assessment instruments is presented. There were no associations among dimensions whose descriptors suggested a good amount of similarity. The results strongly suggest additional study of correspondence among assessment methods that appear to tap similar family properties, with particular attention directed to the correspondence between self-report and direct observational procedures.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003625:Data Collection; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D012107:Research Design; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012923:Social Class; D012931:Social Environment