“…Indeed, Schutz's FIRO-B over its lifetime of four decades has not been universally applauded. Although it has enjoyed widespread use and popularity, Hurley (1990) estimating that FIRO-B receives annually about 25 citations in the Social Science Citation Index, and Furnham (1990Furnham ( , 1996 describing it as one of the three most widely used questionnaires in occupational psychology, it has drawn vehement criticism in respect of its construct validity (Ryan et al, 1970;Hurley, 1990Hurley, , 1991Hurley, , 1992. Others have given it muted approval; for example, Lifton (1985, p. 579)) wrote in the Ninth Mental Measurements Year Book that``the FIRO scales provide useful information concerning the nature of interpersonal relationships''.…”