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Fragebogen zur Analyse der Situation von Eltern mit gemeinsamem Sorgerecht nach Trennung oder Scheidung (FAGS)
Stupka, T. (2003)
The FAGS is used to measure both individual characteristics and attitudes of the respective parent as well as current family relationship qualities from the parent's point of view. The results for the individual subscales and scales provide important information on specific problem areas within the post-decision situation. The conception of the items was based on results from divorce research. The questionnaire consists of two slightly different versions and comprises 101 items (questionnaire for the caring parent) or 102 items (questionnaire for the non-caring parent). It contains six scales, which in turn consist of several subscales: (1) Co-parental interaction, (2) relationship between child and parent, (3) relationship between child and relatives, (4) attitudes, (5) psycho-social situation, (6) assessments related to common care. Reliability: The internal consistencies of the scales are Cronbach's Alpha = .51-.96. The values for the subscales also range from satisfactory to very high. Validity: No data.
Constructs/Subject headings: Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples)
Number of items: 101 Items (betreuender Elternteil); 102 Items (nicht-betreuender Elternteil)
Language of items: German
Bochumer Bindungsfragebogen (BoBi)
Neumann, E., Rohmann, E., Bierhoff, H.-W. (2012)
The BoBi represents the German adaptation of the questionnaire Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR; Brennan, Clark & Shaver, 1998), which was developed on the basis of binding theoretical assumptions. The dimensional measurement of the partnership bond followed in these two questionnaires builds on the model of bonding styles developed by Ainsworth et al. (1978) to describe different qualities of parent-child bonds. According to Hazan and Shaver (1987), the model can also be applied to partnership relationships in adulthood. The BoBi records the self-assessment of the partnership relationship along the two dimensions "avoidance" and "fear" with 18 items each. Reliability: Cronbach's alpha was alpha = .81-.91. Validity: Factor-analytical investigations point to a very good factorial validity of both scales. Furthermore, it could be shown that avoidance and fear at different levels correlate with constructs such as love styles, self-esteem and self-construction, which speaks for the discriminatory validity of the two BoBi scales. Since correlations between the scales and external criteria were found, criterion validity can also be regarded as given. Overall, the test has a high construct validity.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Social Behavior, Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples)
Number of items: 36 Items
Language of items: German
Beziehungsspezifische Bindungsskalen für Erwachsene (BBE)
Asendorpf, J.B., Banse, R., Wilpers, S., Neyer, F.J. (2002)
With the bonding scales - based on Bartholomew's model of bonding styles in adulthood - the quality of the binding to important reference persons in adulthood is to be assessed by means of the axes "safe anxious" and "dependent independent". In total, the questionnaire contains 36 items. Reliability: A Cronbach's alpha of .71-.87 and 6-month stability of rtt = .70-.84 are reported. Validity: The scale "Sure-anxious" correlates highly positively with the Bartholomew prototype "Sure" and highly negatively with "Scared"; the scale "Dependent-independent" correlates highly negatively with the prototype "Rejecting". Furthermore, there are correlations between relationship characteristics relevant for commitment and the BBE: For the scale "Sure-anxious", positive correlations with the relationship quality "Potential support" and negative correlations with "Conflictiness" were found. For the scale "Dependency-independent" positive correlations with "Contact frequency" were found for the concrete relationships with mother, father and partner (not for peers); further correlations are similar to those of the scale "Sure-anxious" in an attenuated form. Discriminant validities were determined, among other things, by correlating the binding scales with characteristics of a control relationship (mother-father; peers of the same sex-peers of the opposite sex; partner-counter-gender friends) and then checking these correlations for significant deviations from the convergent validities.
Constructs/Subject headings: Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples), Therapy related diagnostics
Number of items: 36 Items
Language of items: German
Experiences in Close Relationships Scale - German 10-Item Short Form (ECR-G-10)
Neumann, E., Rohmann, E. & Sattel, H. (2024)
The ECR-G-10 is used for self-assessment of experiences and behavior in adult attachment to romantic partners. The questionnaire is the short form of the Bochum Attachment Questionnaire (BoBi), the German version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR). The two attachment dimensions of avoidance and anxiety are measured with 10 items. Reliability: The internal consistency of the two scales proved to be acceptable to high in several samples (ω = .73-.84, α = .72-.81). Validity: The examination of factorial validity yielded a good model fit. The construct validity of both scales was demonstrated by convergent and discriminant correlations with scales on romantic relationships, personality, and mental health that were in line with expectations.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Social Behavior, Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples)
Number of items: 10 Items
Language of items: German
Belastende Kindheitserfahrungen (KERF-I)
Thekkumthala, D., Schalinski, I., Parigger, A., Ruf-Leuschner M., Elbert, T. & Schauer, M. (2023)
The KERF-I is a structured interview and was developed based on the original English version of the MACE (Teicher & Parigger, 2011; 2015) for comprehensive, retrospective questioning of adults regarding interpersonal stressful childhood experiences. It includes 75 questions. Reliability: no data are available. Validity: Correlations with the CTQ in a sample of n = 32 female subjects demonstrate the convergent validity of the instrument and moderate to high correlations with various psychopathology scores are also available.
Constructs/Subject headings: Other Personality Tests, Other Clinical Tests
Number of items: 75 Items
Language of items: German
Differentieller Lebensbelastungsfragebogen (DLB)
Linden, M., Ritter, K. (2018)
The DLB Scale allows both negative and positive emotions to be measured. In addition to stress, an important aspect of psychological resilience in the sense of protective factors and resistance is recorded. 17 areas of life considered important were used as a basis for the construction and an item was formed for each area of life. These are 1 partnership/marriage, 2 sexuality, 3 children, 4 parents, 5 friends, 6 neighbours/citizens, 7 colleagues, 8 work, 9 leisure time, 10 health, 11 finances, 12 housing, 13 environment, 14 home, 15 politics, 16 future, 17 life balance. With the exception of the "Apartment" item, the questionnaire was psychometrically tested on N = 158 non-clinical subjects. The selectivity lies between rit = .19-.57. Reliability: The self-evaluation sheet has a good internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha = .74-.77). Validity: A calculation of the item intercorrelations shows low to medium correlations between the items. The factor analysis suggests a five-factor solution.
Constructs/Subject headings: Multidimensional Clinical Personality Tests, Multidimensional Personality (Big-Five-Model)
Number of items: 17 Items
Language of items: German
Globalskalen zur Einschätzung von Beziehungseinstellungen (GSEB)
Bierhoff, H.-W., Grau, I. (2012)
The Global Scales for Assessing Relationship Attitudes (GSEB) provide a broad measure of relationship experience using five dimensions with 10 items each: (1) conflict, (2) love, (3) altruism, (4) security, and (5) investment. A wide range of theoretical approaches to relationship research was included, including Bowlby's (1969) attachment theory as interpreted by Bartholomew (1990), Lee's (1976) love styles theory, and exchange theory approaches such as investment theory (Rusbult, 1983) and motivated relationship theory (Clark & Mills, 1993). Reliability: Satisfactory to good internal consistencies were found for the scales at both measurement time points and in the replication study: Cronbach's alpha ranged from .69 to .91, and stable retest coefficients in the range of rtt = .60-.82 could be demonstrated after 12 months. Validity: Factorial validity before and after item assignment to the scales was confirmed by factor analysis. The five scales predicted significant proportions of the variance in both relationship happiness and relationship stability. In terms of prognostic validity, the scales were also found to be significant predictors of happiness and stability as assessed by panel study participants after one year. The scales are largely independent of each other.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Social Behavior, Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples)
Number of items: 50 Items
Language of items: German
Fragebogen zur Erfassung telischer und metatelischer Orientierungen in revidierter Form (TEMEO-R)
Deutscher, S., Mees, U. (2012)
The TEMEO-R measures the content-related objectives and emotional reasons for action of persons through meta-telephonic orientations and thus allows to survey motive structures in a differentiated way. The 144 items have been consistently constructed against the theoretical background of the two-dimensional model of metatelic orientations (Mees & Schmitt, 2003, 2005, 2008a, 2008b, 2008c), which are distributed over 44 scales. Four metatellic orientations each cover the motif strength of a motif area. Reliability: The internal consistencies of the overall scales of the motivational areas are acceptable, but internal consistencies that need to be improved occur in the scales of the individual metatelic orientations. Therefore, it is recommended to use them exclusively for research purposes. The retestreliabilities indicate a temporal stability of the recorded motivational structures. Validity: Both the determination of the criterion validity and the consideration of the content validity refer to the validity of the scales of TEMEO-R.
Constructs/Subject headings: Emotional, Motivational and Behavioural Structures
Number of items: 144 Items
Language of items: German
Biographischer Fragebogen (BIFA)
Bühler, K.-E., Bardeleben, H., Kollmannsperger, E. (1999)
BIFA offers an inventory to the diagnostician with which the central structures of a life story can be determined quickly and practically. The BIFA consists of 40 statements, which are assigned to a total of four evaluation scales: (1) Favourable vs. unfavourable primary socialisation, (2) Self-confidence vs. self-insecurity, (3) School commitment and (4) Child contact behaviour. Reliability: With the exception of the scales "school commitment" and "childlike contact behaviour", whose test retestreliability with rtt = .76 and rtt = .77 was slightly lower than the estimates with Cronbach's Alpha, the reliability calculated here was Alpha = .86-.91. The reliability of the test was calculated with the exception of the scales "school commitment" and "childlike contact behaviour". Validity: The validity of the content was confirmed by a comparison with previous biographical questionnaires, which showed that five of the six identified central dimensions of the biography (family, social activity, school, occupation, personality, health) are also present in the BIFA. Standards: A transformation table of the raw scale values into percentile and T values is available, calculated on the basis of the calibration sample of 517 persons.
Constructs/Subject headings: Other Measures and Scales
Number of items: 40 Items
Language of items: German
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