The Psychosocial Intimacy Questionnaire: Validational Studies and an Investigation of Sex Roles

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to develop an easily administered measure of intimacy that could apply to several types of relationships in adolescents and adults. In a set of four survey studies, the sixty-item Psychosocial Intimacy Questionnaire (PIQ) was found to have high internal consistency (alpha = 0.97) and good test-retest stability over a three-week interval, r = 0.84. Correlations with other measures provided evidence for convergent and discriminant validity of the PIQ. Factor analysis indicated that psychosocial intimacy may be a function of romantic love, supportiveness and communication ease. Intimacy level of heterosexual relationships in young adults appears to be more affected by partners' feminine qualities than by sex-typing or androgyny.

Pauvreté des liens d’attachement et déficiences dans les rapports intimes chez les agresseurs sexuels

“…II existe présentement plusieurs méthodes capables d'évaluer l'intimité : l'échelle d'intimité de Waring (Waring's Intimacy Scale; Waring et Reddon, 1983), le questionnaire d'intimité de Tesch (Tesch's Intimacy Questionnaire;Tesch, 1985) et la mesure sociale d'intimité de Miller et Lecourt (Miller and Lecourt Social Intimacy Mesure;Miller et Lecourt, 1982). Cependant, il n'existe malheureusement qu'une seule mesure de solitude d'usage courant : l'échelle de solitude de UCLA (UCLA Loneliness Scale; Russell et al, 1980).…”

Intimacy Deficits, Fear of Intimacy, and Loneliness among Sexual Offenders

“…Of the two empirical examinations addressing these elements thus far, both Garlick (1989) and Seidman, Marshall, Hudson, and Robertson (1994) have found support for an association among intimacy defi cits, loneliness, and sexual offending. Garlick matched incarcerated child molesters and rapists with an incarcerated nonsexually offending inmate sample, who then completed the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, Peplau, & Cutrona, 1980) and Tesch's (1985) Psychosocial Intimacy Questionnaire. The child molesters and rapists reported signifi cantly lower levels of intimacy and greater amounts of loneliness than the nonsexual offenders, suggesting that intimacy defi cits and loneliness perhaps were not simply a function of criminal behavior.…”

Assessing Intimacy With the Best Friend and the Sexual Partner During Adolescence: The PAIR-M Inventory

“…With a multidimensional structure such as that found in the PAIR-M best friend and partner versions, the newly designed questionnaire may be useful to Downloaded by [University of Illinois Chicago] at 15:36 13 October 2014 complement existing measures of the capacity for intimacy which are not specific, like the EPSI (Rosenthal et al, 1981, in Tesch, 1985, which focuses on six developmental stages from Erikson's theory, and the PIQ (Tesch, 1985), which offers only a global score of intimacy.…”

“…Orlofsky, Marcia, and Lesser (1973) have generated a semi-structured interview to measure the concept of intimacy, but no self-administered tests were developed. The EPSI questionnaire (Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory Scale) designed by Rosenthal et al (1981, in Tesch, 1985 has assessed intimacy, but only as an unidimensional subscale within the Eriksonian stages of psychosocial development. Finally, the Psychosocial Intimacy Questionnaire (PIQ) developed by Tesch (1985) has restricted its assessment of intimacy to a global unidimensional score.…”