The GRIMS. A psychometric instrument for the assessment of marital discord |
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| Authors: | John Rust,Ian Bennun&dagger ,Michael Crowe&Dagger ,Susan Golombok§ |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of London, Institute of Education, 25 Woburn Square, London WC1H OAA, U.K.;Department of Psychology, Exeter University, U.K.;Department of Psychiatry, Maudley Hospital, London, U.K.;Department of Psychology, City University, London, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | Research in marital therapy has been disadvantaged by the lack of a good, short and recent psychometric questionnaire to objectively assess the state of a marriage for research, demographic and clinical purposes. The Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State (GRIMS) is a companion questionnaire to the Golombok Rust Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (GRISS), and concentrates on aspects other than the sexual in a dyadic relationship between two adults living together. It is a 28 item psychometrically constructed inventory designed to produce a single scale along which changes in a marriage may develop as marital therapy progresses. It has been shown to be valid for this purpose, and to have a good reliability. |
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