PSYC 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Domestic Violence, Longitudinal Study, Verbal Abuse
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Psychometrically, mat has serious issues: not gold standard in terms of quality of measure (but it is used frequently) Scale is weighted to what matter more (they believe that factor carries more weight) contribute to score more. On a scale 0-35 (very unhappy perfectly happy) Red number = scale value (numbers how the scale is scored, participants don"t see the number) Measures of agreement /disagreement / behavioural items. Attrition / mortality = disadvantage of longitudinal studies (to follow them 60 years in marriage) Cross-sectional (slide 10) = take people from diff points of relationship: different sample of people (cohort differences) Marital satisfaction = result in a inverted u shape: most low point = marriage couple with teens in the family, only find this result in cross-sectional studies. Measure of aspects of satisfaction (more detailed understanding) 3 items quick, as good to predict behaviour related to marital satisfaction than mat: satisfied with: your marriage, your spouse, your relationship with spouse.
