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The GRIMS. A psychometric instrument for the assessment of marital discord
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The Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State (GRIMS) as discussed by the authors is a companion questionnaire to the GRISS, and concentrates on aspects other than the sexual in a dyadic relationship between two adults living together.Abstract:
Research in marital therapy has been disadvantaged by the lack of a good, short and recent psychometric questionnaire to objectively assess the state of a marriage for research, demographic and clinical purposes. The Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State (GRIMS) is a companion questionnaire to the Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS), and concentrates on aspects other than the sexual in a dyadic relationship between two adults living together. It is a 28 item psychometrically constructed inventory designed to produce a single scale along which changes in a marriage may develop as marital therapy progresses. It has been shown to be valid for this purpose, and to have a good reliability.read more
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Children with Lesbian Parents: A Community Study.
Susan Golombok,Beth Perry,Amanda L Burston,Clare Murray,Julie Mooney-Somers,Madeleine Stevens,Jean Golding +6 more
TL;DR: The quality of parent-child relationships and the socioemotional and gender development of a community sample of 7-year-old children with lesbian parents is examined and findings are in line with those of earlier investigations showing positive mother-child relationship and well-adjusted children.
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Families Created by the New Reproductive Technologies: Quality of Parenting and Social and Emotional Development of the Children
TL;DR: The results showed that the quality of parenting in Families with a child conceived by assisted conception is superior to that shown by families with a naturally conceived child.
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Donor insemination: child development and family functioning in lesbian mother families.
TL;DR: Boys and girls raised in lesbian mother families were well adjusted and their gender role development did not differ from that of children raised in heterosexual families.
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The European study of assisted reproduction families: family functioning and child development
Susan Golombok,A. Brewaeys,Rachel Cook,M.T. Giavazzi,D. Guerra,A. Mantovani,E. V. Van Hall,P.G. Crosignani,S. Dexeus +8 more
TL;DR: Assisted reproduction fathers were found to interact more with their child and to contribute more to parenting than fathers with a naturally conceived child and no group differences were found for either the presence of psychological disorder or children's perceptions of the quality of family relationships.
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The European study of assisted reproduction families: the transition to adolescence
TL;DR: IVF and DI families with an early adolescent child appear to be functioning well, with the possible exception of the overinvolvement with their children of a small proportion of assisted reproduction mothers and fathers.
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Short Marital Adjustment and Prediction Tests: Their reliability and validity
Harvey J Locke,Karl M. Wallace +1 more
TL;DR: The Terman Happiness Test contains 75 items; the modified Terman-Oden test contains 103 items; and the Locke Marital-Success Schedule contains 892 numbered items as mentioned in this paper.
A Framework for Conceptualizing Marital Conflict, A Technology for Altering It, Some Data for Evaluating It.
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualization of marital conflict and assessment devices that were developed for measuring dyadic conflict were described, and the data on effectiveness of the intervention consist of the findings with regard to distressed couples, negative or aversive interacting and problem solving, increase in relationship satisfaction post treatment, and significant increases in reported pleasures from spouses.
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On the psychometric properties of the Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ): Evaluation of self-ratings in distressed and ‘normal’ volunteer couples based on the dutch version
TL;DR: The Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ) as discussed by the authors is a short 20-item scale which was designed to assess degree of favourableness of attitude towards one's own marriage.
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The measurement of marital quality.
TL;DR: The need for measures of variables which assess marital quality, and the history of measurements in this area, is reviewed, some conceptual and methodological issues of relevance are identified, and then the Dyadic Adjustment Scale developed by Spanier is focused on.
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Marital problems and sexual dysfunction: how are they related?
TL;DR: It was found that for men there was a much closer relationship between sexual and marital problems than for women and the specific male sexual dysfunctions of impotence and premature ejaculation played a much larger part in marital discord.