Social psychologist, relationships enthusiast, Associate Prof at Western University 🇨🇦.
Samantha Joel
Loading...
By providing an organized list of measures and a high-fidelity copy of each, we hope to make it easier for researchers to:
- select the appropriate measure for their work
- use existing measures in a similar way (e.g., same wording, anchors)
- be less tempted to generate new, ad-hoc measures
Credit to my husband James Marchment, who is a graphic and web designer (not an academic), and spent a bunch of his free time making this website for us. He'll be presenting it as a poster at IARR in Glasgow in July!
"Despite widespread criticism of marital adjustment and related concepts (Spanier and Cole, 1974; Hicks and Platt, 1970), it is probably the most frequently studied dependent variable in the field."
He goes on to say: "Although writers such as Lively (1969) have suggested that we abandon the use of such vague and ambiguous concepts, it is clear that this advice has not been heeded since a plethora of studies in marital adjustment have been published since these criticisms have appeared."
We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science.
You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures!
relascale.com
