The Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ): An Extension of its Construct Validity

SummaryIn a successful attempt at extending the construct validity of the Dutch version of the Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ), its sub-scales were correlated with the Marital Deprivation Scale, the Sexuality Experiencing Scale, the Marital Communication Inventory, and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist.

Self-Report and Fantasy Correlates of Death Concern

The Death Concern Scale (Dickstein, 1972) was administered to 185 college females and three groups of high ( n = 24), middle ( n = 25), and low ( n = 24) death-concern Ss were selected. These groups were administered the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale, the Pearson Novelty-experiencing Scale, the Mosher Forced-choice Guilt Inventory, and the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values. In addition, Ss took the TAT which was scored for death references, prospective span, retrospective span, themes of illicit sexuality, and themes of punishment. Death concern was positively related to internal sensation novelty-seeking, retrospective span, death references, and themes of illicit sexuality, and negatively related to the Theoretical value and social desirability. These results are interpreted as providing further support for the construct validity of the scale.

Multi-Dimensional Measures of Novelty Experiencing, Sensation Seeking, and Ability: Correlational Analysis for Male and Female College Samples

The four scales of the Novelty-experiencing Scale and the five scales of the Sensation-seeking Scale were administered to male and female college students. With the exception of the general scale of the Sensation-seeking Scale, which correlated substantially with its four remaining scales and one of the Novelty-experiencing scales, the sub-scales generally had only low to moderate rs within each of the scales and between all scales. Significant sex differences were found for five of the sub-scales. Although several of the sub-scales had low but significant correlations with SAT measures, both tests were relatively independent of the ability measures.