title: The central relationship questionnaire (CRQ): psychometric properties in a Swedish sample and cross-cultural studies.
abstract: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method is one of the most widely used and tested instruments developed within a psychoanalytic context for assessing central relationship patterns or characteristic patterns of relating to others. The Swedish version of the Central Relationship Questionnaire (CRQ), a recently developed self-report instrument based on the CCRT, was tested in a sample of Swedish psychology students (31 men, 60 women) and compared with responses of Swedish outpatients (15 men, 15 women) and North American students (49 men, 49 women). The subscales of the Swedish CRQ showed acceptable internal consistency and correlated with each other in a predictable fashion, displaying a pattern of intercorrelations similar to the English version. The CRQ showed meaningful patterns of correspondence with self-reported interpersonal problems as well as meaningful differences between the Swedish students and Swedish outpatients, indicating preliminary convergent and divergent validity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. robert.weinryb@knv.ki.se
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Weinryb
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barber
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foltz
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Göransson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gustavsson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014177:Translations; D014481:United States