Click on the name of any of the instruments below to download it. Click on the referenced article underneath each measure heading to read more about the measure and how it has been used

Relationship Attribution Measure

Fincham, F. D. & Bradbury, T. N. (1992).  Assessing attributions in marriage: The relationship attribution measure.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62(3), 457-468.

Perceived Efficacy Measure    (Fincham, F. D. & Bradbury, T. N. (1989, November). Cognition and marital dysfunction: The role of efficacy expectations.  Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Washington, DC.)

Life Events Measure

Cohan, C. L. & Bradbury, T. N. (1997).  Negative life events, marital interaction, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73(1), 114-128.

In addition, two SPSS syntax files are provided here. One contains the variable name and variable labels, so you know which life event corresponds to which numbered event. The other file contains the mean rating of the raters (from 1-9) for each of the five domains for each numbered life event. In the JPSP article we defined major events as those with a mean rating > 5, and summed those events. Raters rated each event in 5 domains: major events (severe), interpersonal events, loss events, chronic events, and dependent events. The file with the domain weights (mean rater rating) has the weights for each numbered life event for each domain. Variable names that begin with H are for husbands and variable names that begin with W are for wives. There are identical variables for husbands and for wives.

When you go down the list of numbered events in the file with the weights for each domain, you will find that pairs of numbers are skipped throughout. That is because for each section of events (e.g., job, family, health), there were 2 events that subjects could fill in and rate. There are no raters' ratings for those filled in events since they were idiosyncratic for each subject. One other thing to point out about the syntax file with the domain weights is that we weighted each life event according to the average rating. Ultimately we decided not to do that and went with the raw counts of events that scored > 5.0.

Social Support Interaction Coding System

Pasch, L. A. & Bradbury, T. N. (1998).  Social support, conflict, and the development of marital dysfunction.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 66(2), 219-230.

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