Assessing dysfunctional cognition in marriage: A reconsideration of the Relationship Belief Inventory.
Psychological AssessmentPublished 1 March 1993
Thomas N. Bradbury, Frank D. Fincham
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Abstract
Although the Relationship Belief Inventory (RBI) is used widely in marital research, its psychometric properties have not been examined separately for men and women, it has not been validated in relation to observational measures, and the reliability of some of its scales has been questioned. To address these issues, 43 couples completed the RBI and a measure of marital satisfaction and were observed while discussing a marital difficulty
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