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The Relational Assessment Questionnaire (RAQ)
A number of researchers have examined the impact of self-related tendencies on intimate relationships. The Relational Assessment Questionnaire (RAQ) is an objective self-report instrument which measures relational-esteem, the tendency to positively evaluate one's capacity to relate intimately to another person; relational-depression, the tendency to feel depressed about the status of one's intimate relationships; and relational-preoccupation, the tendency to be highly obsessed with thoughts about intimate relationships.
The Marital Disillusionment Scale
Recent research identified disillusionment in marriage as an important predictor of divorce, but no scale exists to measure this construct. Current projections estimate that up to 50% of today's first marriages will end in divorce. Divorce comes at a high price for families and for society in general (Larson, Swyers, & Larson, 1995); therefore, researchers have become interested in understanding the causes of marital unhappiness and instability as a way to predict, and ideally to forestall, divorce. In recent years, research has focused particular attention on the process of...
Jealousy Instrument
Evolutionary psychologists hypothesised over three decades ago that men and women would differ psychologically in the weighting given to cues that trigger jealousy (Symons, 1979). A man's jealousy has been hypothesised to focus on cues to sexual infidelity because a long term partner's infidelity jeapordises his certainty in paternity, thereby placing him at risk of investing in another man's offspring. A woman's jealousy has been hypothesised to relate to cues to the long-term diversion of a man's commitment. The Jealousy Instrument is a 22 item questionnaire of events relating to...
Mate Retention Inventory (Male, Self-Reported) MRI-MSR
Mate Retention Inventory (Short Form) MRI-SF
Susceptibility to Infidelity Instrument
Characteristics Desired in Friend
Costs and Benefits of Friendship
Reasons for Dissolving a Friendship
Mate Poaching Inventory
A critical adaptive problem is that sometimes, desirable mates are already mated and therefore not available in the eligible mating pool. Some researchers have argued, on the basis of analyses of traditional cultures, that in human ancestral conditions, most women became married at or shorty after puberty. This mating context would have severely exasperated the adaptive problem of finding a mate for those who were not already mated, particularly for men. Any degree of polygyny, a possible reoccurring feature of our past, would have further intensified the problem. The authors of this scale...
