Dubious Support for Firo-B's Validity
- 1 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 65 (3) , 929-930
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.65.3.929
Abstract
The evidence that Floyd (1988) recently cited as supporting FIRO-B's validity was reviewed. Without hypotheses about relationships between the 25 items of a Living Group Questionnaire and FIRO-B's 6 scales, Floyd determined all correlations between these measures separately for undergraduate males and females. The .05 level of statistical significance was reached by 15 correlations among 300, about the number expected by chance, and none was significant for both genders. Flawed in other respects, Floyd's report gave no firm evidence to counter increasing challenges to FIRO-B's validity.Keywords
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