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Measuring relationship maintenance behaviors: Critique and development of the revised relationship maintenance behavior scale.
- Source :
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Journal of Social & Personal Relationships . Mar2011, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p278-303. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The most frequently utilized measures of relational maintenance (i.e., the five-factor relational maintenance strategies measure, or RMSM, and the revised seven-factor RMSM) suffer from fundamental measurement flaws. Therefore, this article describes a series of studies designed to identify weaknesses in these measures and offer an improvement — the Relational Maintenance Behavior Measure (RMBM). When sound item-construction practices are followed, neither prior RMSM is viable. However, the factor structure of the RMBM is stable across three samples. The RMBM and the five-factor RMSM were examined in association with the relational characteristics of satisfaction, liking, commitment, and love. It is argued that the RMBM is a psychometrically superior measure of the original maintenance dimensions identified in earlier research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02654075
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Social & Personal Relationships
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 59702259
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407510378125