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Personal Space: An Objective Measure of Marital Quality.

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Crane, D. Russell; Griffin, William – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1983

Tested the relevance of the personal space concept when applied to marital relationships. Married couples (N=24) completed five questionnaires. Results showed that the personal space concept did apply, i.e., distance between couples increased as marital quality decreased. A stop-distance measure discriminated between distressed and non-distressed…

Descriptors: Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction, Nonverbal Communication, Personal Space

The Marital Status Inventory: Some Preliminary Data on an Instrument to Measure Marital Dissolution Potential.

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Crane, D. Russell; Mead, D. Eugene – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1980

The Marital Status Inventory (MSI) differentiates effectively between couples seeking marital counseling and couples seeking help with parent-child problems. For all cases, MSI scores were found to relate significantly to husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction in the areas of companionship and sex. (Author)

Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Family Counseling, Marital Instability, Marriage Counseling