A review of David Olson's Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems and accompanying scales used to measure his model, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES) and Clinical Rating Scale (CRS), reveal evidence of multiple construct confounding. Therefore, the primary purpose of this dissertation was to create a refined, linear measure of cohesion or interpersonal warmth. The FACES II, Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (PAC), McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD), and thermometer subscales were used to test the construct validity of the new instrument. The new instrument was then used to test the hypotheses that (a) adaptability is better conceptualized as a subscale of the refined cohesion construct and that (b) the curvilinear construct of enmeshment is better conceptualized as a combination of multiple linear constructs that correlate in both a positive and negative fashion creating pseudocurvilinear results. / The new instrument was constructed using data from 1649 male and female participants from 8 states ages 13 to 71. The psychometric properties of the new measure and hypotheses of the dissertation were tested using 475 female and male undergraduate students. / Results indicate that the new instrument has high test retest and internal consistency reliability. There was also strong evidence for content and construct validity. Adaptability was found to be highly correlated with cohesion and the new instrument. Ideal and dysfunctional measures of the new instrument subscales support the conclusion that enmeshment is better conceptualized as consisting of multiple linear constructs. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: B, page: 0518. / Major Professor: Charles H. Madsen, Jr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77352 |
| Contributors | Cluff, Richard Barton., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 203 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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