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Peer reviewedCrane, 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
Peer reviewedCrane, D. Russell; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990
Sought to identify similarities and differences of Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), and Revised Marital Adjustment Test (RMAT) with 302 clinical and nonclinical couples. Across both samples, each test was significantly different from other two. Results showed that scores on DAS, MAT, and RMAT were not equivalent.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Testing, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction
Peer reviewedCrane, 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
Peer reviewedWang, Linna; Crane, D. Russell – American Journal of Family Therapy, 2001
Study examined the effect of triangulation on depression in children. Clinical samples and nonclinical samples were taken from Utah and Illinois. Results showed children's depressive symptoms to be most strongly linked to the father's level of marital satisfaction, marital stability, and perceived family triangulation. Mothers' variables did not…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Depression (Psychology), Family Life
Self-Report Schedules for Use in Assessing the Marital Adjustment of Abusive and Nonabusive Parents.
Peer reviewedButler, John F.; Crane, D. Russell – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1980
There was no statistically significant difference in the marital adjustment of abusive v nonabusive parents. Both groups appear to have only mildly distressed marital relationships. The results for the couples with parent-child problems were similar to those of the original Weiss and Cerreto study (1980). (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Emotional Adjustment
