Factor Structure of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale

Vajda, Dóra; Thege, Barna Konkolÿ; Rózsa, Sándor

doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000405

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“…DAS is a relatively old instrument focused more on agreement than on satisfaction and could not fully capture the more positive aspects of relationships (Graham, Liu & Jeziorski, 2006). A recent study examining the DAS factor structure found acceptable reliability for the DAS consensus and cohesion subscales, but poor reliability for the satisfaction and affectional expression factors, suggesting that the interpretation of DAS scores to assess these constructs should be made with caution (Vajda, Thege & R ozsa, 2019).…”

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The Findings of a Cochrane Meta‐Analysis of Couple Therapy in Adult Depression: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

Barbato

D’Avanzo

2020

Family Process

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The association between depressive symptoms and distressed intimate relationships supported the assumption that couple therapy, by focusing on the interpersonal context of depression, might be more effective as a treatment for depression than individual psychotherapy or drug therapy. This issue was addressed by a Cochrane meta-analysis assessing the evidence from clinical trials of couple therapy for depression in comparison with individual psychotherapy, drug therapy, and no/minimal intervention, including fourteen studies with 651 participants. No study was found free of bias and the quality of the evidence was low, with major problems of small sample sizes, missing outcome data, selective reporting, lack of information on random sequence generation and allocation concealment, recruitment of people not representative of clinical practice, and allegiance bias. The metaanalysis showed that both couple therapy and individual psychotherapy improved depressive symptoms at end of treatment and after 6 months or longer, with moderate effect sizes, without any difference between the two treatments. Couple therapy was more effective in reducing couple distress. This effect was larger in studies with distressed couples only and should be considered as relevant in its own right. Couple therapy is a viable option for the treatment of a depressed partner, especially in discordant couples. Future research should address several issues left open to provide a sound empirical foundation for clinical practice.

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The Findings of a Cochrane Meta‐Analysis of Couple Therapy in Adult Depression: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

Barbato

D’Avanzo

2020

Family Process

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“…Nevertheless, our results have also a variety of limitations: Firstly, it turned out that the chosen SO-subscale measures the direct attachment to the opposite person only to a certain extent even when manipulated, especially if they were unknown to each other prior to the experiment. Therefore, further studies with the IU should recruit couples, which know each other for a longer time and should use a more reliable tool as external criterion such as the dyadic relationship scale [17]. Secondly, our approach has so far only been used for the available vertical of the drawing area.…”

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IU – A Digital Application for the Graphical Examination of Interpersonal Attachment

Unger

Theis²,

Niedermann³

et al. 2021

German Medical Data Sciences: Bringing Data to Life

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Human attachment describes the establishment of contact between two or more people leading to a closer interpersonal relationship. For measuring attachment, the use of nonverbal assessments tools including art and drawing tasks has been shown to be an alternative to conventional assessment approaches. The present study aims at evaluating the internal criterion validity of a new digital drawing tool for measuring interpersonal attachment. 68 participants took part in this pilot study and were separated in groups of two. After completion of a 10-item subscale of Social Orientation (SO) they were asked to sit opposite to the other and to hold eye contact during a three minute drawing period. Moving the pen to the upper section near the partner stood for thoughts about the other, while moving to the lower section closest to the subject implicated thoughts about oneself. The mean distance of the resulting time series of the two subjects were calculated, using the mean Euclidean distance, and compared with the difference in the SO values via linear regression. Taking all differences together a moderate correlation of r = 0.298 was observed, which however slightly missed the level of significance (p = 0.09). We were able to find small evidence for the criterion validity of IU digital drawing tool. For future studies, other measures of similarity in the time series, i.e. the Manhattan Distance are discussed as an extension to foster the present results.

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“…Die international etablierte Originalversion Dyadic Adjustment Scale erfasst mit 32 Items das Konstrukt der Partnerschaftsqualität mehrdimensional, wobei die ursprünglich vorgeschlagene Faktorenstruktur mit den vier Dimensionen Konsens, Zufriedenheit, Ko häsion und Gefühlsausdruck [6] zwar gelegentlich repliziert werden konnte, aber auch andere Faktorenlösungen gefunden wurden [24,25]. Obwohl die vier Items der hier untersuchten ultrakurzen DAS-4 nicht primär nach theoretischen Aspekten, sondern mittels IRT-Analysen ausgewählt wurden, werden sie traditionell dem Faktor Zufriedenheit zugeordnet, der für das übergeordnete Konstrukt der Paarqualität von essentieller Bedeutung ist [8].…”

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Erfassung der Partnerschaftszufriedenheit mit vier Items? Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version einer Kurzform der Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4)

Lübke,

Flemming,

Müller

et al. 2024

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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ZusammenfassungDie Qualität der Paarbeziehung eines Menschen spielt eine zentrale Rolle für das individuelle Wohlbefinden sowie die seelische und körperliche Gesundheit. Trotz ihrer großen Bedeutung gibt es nur wenige ultrakurze, d. h. anwendungsökonomische Selbstbeurteilungsverfahren. Die aus vier Items bestehende Kurzversion der Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4) stellt eine Ausnahme dar, die sich international zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreut. In dieser Studie wurde die deutsche Version der DAS-4 erstmalig an einer Stichprobe von Personen aus der Allgemeinbevölkerung, welche sich in einer festen Partnerschaft befinden (N=1296), im Hinblick auf ihre psychometrischen Eigenschaften überprüft. Neben befriedigenden teststatistischen Itemkennwerten wies das eindimensionale konfirmatorische Messmodell eine ausreichende Anpassungsgüte auf und die interne Konsistenz lag im zufriedenstellenden Bereich (ω=0,80). Es zeigte sich, dass Messinvarianz für Männer und Frauen basierend auf dem latenten Konstrukt der DAS-4 angenommen werden kann. Hypothesenkonform fanden sich Assoziationen der DAS-4 mit dem Geschlecht, der allgemeinen Lebenszufriedenheit, Psychopathologie und Bindungsstilen, was auf eine angemessene Konstruktvalidität schließen lässt. Trotz ausstehender Anwendungserfahrungen und psychometrischer Analysen der DAS-4 bei relevanten Zielgruppen wie Probanden und Probandinnen in Paarberatung bzw. -therapie, kann das mit vier Items sehr anwendungsökonomische Verfahren zur orientierenden Erfassung der Partnerschaftszufriedenheit empfohlen werden.

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Factor Structure of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

The Findings of a Cochrane Meta‐Analysis of Couple Therapy in Adult Depression: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

The Findings of a Cochrane Meta‐Analysis of Couple Therapy in Adult Depression: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

IU – A Digital Application for the Graphical Examination of Interpersonal Attachment

Erfassung der Partnerschaftszufriedenheit mit vier Items? Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version einer Kurzform der Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4)

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