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EMR6410, Spring 06
Dr. Warren Lacefield, Professor
Hong Zhong, EMR
Amy Gullickson, IDPE
Overview
PREPARE:
items
Assesses 20 areas of relationship quality:
Scoring
Individual
Couples
PREPARE Typologies
Vitalized
couples
Harmonious couples
Traditional couples
Conflicted couples
(Fowers, Montel & Olson, 1996)
Typology Validity
The
Concurrent Validity
PREPARE
Fowers
Reliability
Internal
(http://www.prepare-enrich.com/about_us.cfm?id=33#Evidence_for_PE)
the internal consistency and the testretest reliabilities have improved from those
reported by Larson et al. (1995) for a
previous version (e.g., internal consistency
range from .64 to .85; test-retest r = .73).
Unreliable items dropped for version 2000
Data suggest that the instrument has very
good reliability for relationship scales
Advantages
High
Limitations
Summary
Facilitate
References