THE USE OF A BIPOLAR ITEM FORMAT FOR FACES III: A RECONSIDERATION
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
- Vol. 16 (2) , 187-199
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1990.tb00838.x
Abstract
FACES III, and cohesion, independence, and conflict scales form the Family Assessment Device, the Family Environment Scale and the Structural Family Interaction Scale‐Revised were administered to 183 high school seniors and college freshmen. The results of polynomial regression analysis indicate FACES III is a linear measure of cohesion and adaptability. MANOVA findings are used to re‐examine the suggestion that a bipolar item format is the only, or best, solution for turnig FACES III into a curvilinear measure of the Circumplex Model.Keywords
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