An Evaluation of the German Relationship Assessment Scale

The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) is a short seven-item measure for the assessment of relationship satisfaction. It can be used with different types of relationships. We aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the German version of the RAS in a community sample of N = 145 persons. The principal component analysis revealed one general factor, which accounted for more than 60 per cent of the variance. The internal consistency of the RAS was high (α = .89). While there were no significant associations between RAS scores and age or gender, several other sociodemographic parameters had an impact on the RAS, e. g. presence of children. The RAS correlated significantly with scales of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), most impressively with the DAS satisfaction scale (r = .87). Persons living in a distressing relationship, as indicated by a DAS total score below 100, also had lower scores on the RAS. In conclusion, our results extend the evidence on the reliability and validity of the RAS.

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Validation of the insomnia assessment scale – adapted in a community sample of portuguese pregnant women

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.705 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (S1) ◽

pp. s269-s269

Author(s):

M. Marques ◽

A.T. Pereira ◽

J. Azevedo ◽

S. Xavier ◽

E. Bento ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pregnant Women ◽

Community Sample ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Principal Component ◽

Perinatal Period ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Competing Interest ◽

Insomnia Symptoms ◽

Sleep Difficulties

IntroductionPregnancy is characterized by important changes in sleep and some of them (as insomnia) predict negative outcomes, like depression, through all the perinatal period. There are few Portuguese adapted and validated instruments assessing insomnia in pregnancy.ObjectiveTo validate the Insomnia Assessment Scale in a sample of Portuguese pregnant women.Methods419 pregnant women (mean age: 32.51 ± 4.759; weeks of gestation: 17.32 ± 4.803) answered the Insomnia Assessment Scale (IAS), constructed according to the DSM-V and the ICSD-3 criteria and presenting fourteen items: three evaluating insomnia symptoms (1 to 3); one assessing if sleep difficulties were present although there were adequate conditions to sleep (item 4); one assessing if sleep difficulties occurred three times/week (item 5); one evaluating if sleep was not restorative (item 6); three assessing daily impairment associated to insomnia symptoms (7 to 9); two assessing the use of prescribed and/or homemade medication (10 and 11); three excluding that sleep difficulties were not due to another sleep disorder, substance use, a physical condition or a mental disorder) (12 to 14).ResultsThe IAS Kuder-Richardson alpha was very good (α=0.85) and none of the items increased the alpha if removed. A principal component analysis revealed a three factors solution, explaining a variance/EV of 63,74%: F1/Insomnia symptoms (items 1 to 6) (EV 36.02%; α=0.81); F2/Daily impairment associated to insomnia symptoms (items 7 to 9) (EV 18.67%; α=0.79); F3/Differential diagnosis (items 12 to 14) (EV 8.38%; α=0.81).ConclusionsThe IAS adapted for Portuguese pregnant women presented good reliability and validity.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) in infertile patients: A reliability and validity study

Middle East Fertility Society Journal ◽

10.1016/j.mefs.2018.04.001 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 471-475 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Saman Maroufizadeh ◽

Reza Omani-Samani ◽

Amir Almasi-Hashiani ◽

Behnaz Navid ◽

Bentolhoda Sobati ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Reliability And Validity ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Validity Study ◽

Relationship Assessment ◽

The Relationship ◽

Infertile Patients

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Reliability and validity of the relationship assessment scale

American Journal of Family Therapy ◽

10.1080/019261899262023 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 137-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

Marsha Vaughn ◽

Margaret E. Matyastik Baier

Keyword(s):

Reliability And Validity ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Relationship Assessment ◽

The Relationship

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Reliabilita a konstruktová validita metody Relationship Assessment Scale

TESTFÓRUM ◽

10.5817/tf2019-12-12123 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (12) ◽

pp. 17-29

Author(s):

Nikol Kvardová ◽

Monika Radimecká ◽

Marie Drápalová ◽

Jan Širůček

Keyword(s):

Dyadic Adjustment ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

Dyadic Adjustment Scale ◽

Relationship Assessment

Předkládaná studie se zabývala ověřením vybraných psychometrických charakteristik metody Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS), která zjišťuje partnerskou spokojenost. V rámci ověření byla zjišťována reliabilita metody v podobě vnitřní konzistence a konstruktová validita prostřednictvím souvislosti metody RAS s dimenzemi partnerské spokojenosti, partnerské shody a partnerské soudržnosti metody Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), která zjišťuje partnerské přizpůsobení. Za účelem ověření těchto vlastností metody byla sesbírána data od 232 respondentů, data byla sesbírána po internetu. Reliabilita metody byla v rámci současné studie zjištěna jako uspokojivá pro výzkumné účely. Souvislosti mezi faktorem partnerské spokojenosti metody RAS a faktory partnerské spokojenosti a soudržnosti metody RDAS podpořily hypotézu o konstruktové validitě metody RAS. Silný pozitivní vztah mezi faktorem partnerské spokojenosti metody RAS a faktorem partnerské shody metody RDAS nepodpořil hypotézu o konstruktové validitě, tento výsledek poukazoval na možnou shodu těchto dvou konstruktů. Výsledek však mohl být způsoben škálou partnerské shody metody RDAS, která na výzkumném vzorku současné studie nemusela fungovat jako spolehlivý ukazatel shody mezi partnery. Na základě výsledků byla navržena revize modelu.

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The Relationship Between Performance on the Multi-Focus Assessment Scale and Functional Status

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ◽

10.1017/s0714980800015373 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 33-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

H. Tuokko ◽

D. Crockett ◽

S. Holliday ◽

M. Coval

Keyword(s):

Discriminant Validity ◽

Function Analysis ◽

Assessment Scale ◽

General Factor ◽

Assessment Clinic ◽

Extended Care ◽

Random Samples ◽

Independent Functioning ◽

High Degree ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThis study examined the discriminant validity of the Multi-focus Assessment Scale (MAS). The MAS was administered to three groups of older adults varying in ability to live independently: Extended Care in-patients; Assessment Clinic out-patients; and independently functioning elderly. Analysis of variance showed strong group differences on all of the scales. Discriminant function analysis indicated that the MAS variables predicted group membership with a high degree of accuracy. Replications using random samples indicated the accuracy rates were stable. It was argued that cases of misclassification were largely due to overlap between subgroups of Extended Care and Assessment Clinic patients in terms of their capacity to engage in independent functioning. Also addressed in this study was the identification of variables on the MAS critical to independent functioning. The results indicated that there was a general lowering of functioning rather than specific patterns of preserved strengths or deficits. This was consistent with the presence of a general factor. The need for additional normative data for the MAS was discussed.

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Portuguese validation of the Version of the Regret Scale

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.601 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (S1) ◽

pp. s239-s239

Author(s):

D. Borges ◽

A.T. Pereira ◽

J. Borges ◽

A.S. Cabral ◽

S. Xavier ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Negative Emotion ◽

Community Sample ◽

Temporal Stability ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Portuguese Version ◽

Competing Interest ◽

The Relationship ◽

Pearson Correlations ◽

Ongoing Project

IntroductionRegret is defined as an aversive negative emotion associated to specific cognitive contents, felt when we consider that our current situation could be better, if we had taken a different decision (Zeelenberg and Pieters 1997). Regret Scale/RS corresponds to the regret-trait dimension of Regret and Maximization Scale developed by Schwartz et al. (2002).ObjectiveTo investigate the psychometric properties of the RS Portuguese version.MethodsA community sample composed of 108 university students and 79 employees (78.1% females; mean age = 33.16 ± 13.175; range: 17-62) answered the Portuguese preliminary versions of the RS and Bedtime Counterfactual Processing Questionnaire (BCPQ) and also the Profile of Mood States to evaluate Negative Affect/NA. To study the temporal stability, 31 participants (83.9% females; mean age = 26.54 ± 18.761) answered the RAFS again after 6 weeks.ResultsThe EA Cronbach alpha was “very good” (a = 0.72). All the items contributed to the internal consistency. The test-retest correlation coefficient was high, positive and significant (0.72; P < 0.001). Following Kaiser and Cattel Scree Plot criteria, only one factor was extracted, meaning that the scale is unidimensional. Pearson correlations of EA and BCPQ2 and NA were significant and high ([email protected]).ConclusionsThe Portuguese version of RS has good reliability and validity. It could be very useful both in clinical and research contexts, namely in an ongoing project on the relationship between regret, personality and psychological distress.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Regional Intellectual Wealth and Sustainable Development in Colombia

Tecnura ◽

10.14483/22487638.17389 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (68) ◽

pp. 15-27

Author(s):

Paula Garcia Benitez ◽

Carlos Hildebrando Fonseca Zárate ◽

Juan Carlos García Ubaque

Keyword(s):

Principal Component ◽

Institutional Innovation ◽

Development Model ◽

The Social ◽

Engineering And Technology ◽

Different Types ◽

The Face ◽

The Relationship ◽

Exploitation Model ◽

Municipal Level

Abstract CONTEXT: There is a growing concern with the economic consumption and unlimited accumulation model because improvement in some parameters implies that others are negatively affected. There is a need for more intellectual wealth, not only oriented towards the market, but also towards engineering and technology. Methodology: To measure natural/environmental, human, intellectual, public/institutional, and private wealth, the basic results of the Índice de desarrollo territorial sustentable (IDTS, spanish acronyms) are used, which is formed by 60 variables. With data from the 2000-2010 period, the relationship between the 5 types of wealth and sustainability is analyzed using principal component analysis. Results: At the municipal and departmental levels, the direction of the natural and environmental wealth was found to be opposite direction to the other four. The distance between the different types of wealth ended up being important, and it increases with the IDTS. Conclusions: The development model followed by Colombia is negatively affecting the natural and environmental wealth and as so is unsustainable. Neither research nor innovation are making adequate use of the natural resources at municipal level, and autonomous regional corporations may be ineffective against the inadequate use of this wealth. It is imperative to modify this exploitation model and reduce the distance between the five types of wealth. Although it is necessary to adopt and develop engineering and technology adequate to biodiversity and tropical geography, this is not enough; substantial social and institutional innovation are also needed in the face of a complex, uncertain, and dizzying technological reality, which is also inequitable at the social and interregional scale. Financing: This project was self-funded.

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PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE CHINESE VERSION OF THE KANSAS MARITAL SATISFACTION SCALE

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1993.21.3.241 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 241-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Daniel T. L. Shek ◽

M. C. Lam ◽

K. W. Tsoi ◽

C. M. Lam

Keyword(s):

Marital Satisfaction ◽

Marital Adjustment ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Dyadic Adjustment ◽

Chinese Version ◽

Satisfaction Scale ◽

High Internal Consistency ◽

Comparison Level ◽

Acceptable Reliability ◽

Objective Tool

The Chinese version of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (C-KMS) was administered to 91 maritally “adjusted” and 81 maritally “maladjusted” adults, along with other instruments assessing marital adjustment (the Chinese Dyadic Adjustment Scale) and marital expectations (the Chinese Marital Comparison Level Index). The C-KMS was found to have high internal consistency as a scale and the C-KMS scores were observed to correlate substantially with measures of marital adjustment and marital expectation but not significantly with measures not expected to be related to marriage. The results also showed that there were significant differences between the maritally “adjusted” and the “maladjusted” groups of subjects in terms of C-KMS scores. The present data show that the CKMS has acceptable reliability and validity status and that it can be used as an objective tool in assessing marital satisfaction in the Chinese context.

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