Relative emotional intimacy power scale (Tschann et al., 2002)
- Populations: Adolescents
- Age ranges: 14-19
- Languages: English
- Countries: United States
Items
Example Items:
- How important is it to you to share your feelings with your partner?
- How much do you need your partner?
Responses
Items used a 5 point scale ranging from 1 “not important / not much” to 5 “extremely important / the most I ever have”
Scoring
“To obtain relative intimacy power scores, participants’ desire for intimacy was subtracted from their perceptions of partners’ desire for
intimacy. The resulting difference scores represented participants’ relative emotional intimacy power, with higher scores indicating greater relative power compared with their partners. Thus, this measure for emotional intimacy power did not require adolescents to judge directly which person in their relationship had more power.” (Tschann et al., 2002)
Citations
Tschann, J. M., Adler, N. E., Millstein, S. G., Gurvey, J. E., & Ellen, J. M. (2002). Relative power between sexual partners and condom use among adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 31(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1054-139X(01)00418-9
Scoring breakdown
Measure development
- Significant design input from young people
- Cognitive interviews with young people
- Expert input
Validity
- Unknown: Face validity
- Unknown: Convergent validity
- Green: Construct validity
Reliability
- Green: Internal consistency
- Unknown: Test-retest
Ease of use
- Unknown: Readability
Definitions
Face validity: How well a measure appears to represent the construct it is supposed to be measuring.
Convergent validity: How well a measure correlates with other hypothetically-related measures.
Construct validity: The extent to which a measure reflects the construct it was designed to evaluate.
Internal consistency: The extent to which items in a scale capture aspects of the same construct.
Test-retest: The degree to which measurement scores are consistent over a short period of time (usually 2 weeks).
Readability: The ease with which a reader can understand the questionnaire items.
Key
- Green: Meets validation criteria
- Red: Does not meet validation criteria
- Unknown: Evidence not available
