An Item Factor Analysis of the Revised Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory

The revised version of the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory with an added advice-giving scale was given to 240 female and 95 male students, who completed it in terms of their current closest personal relationship. The correlations between the 80 items were factor-analysed using a principal-factor solution to determine whether the items represented the five postulated factors of advice-giving, empathy, congruence, and level of and unconditionally of regard. Eighteen factors were extracted and rotated by the Varimax method. The first five factors extracted accounted for 36.3% of the variance and reflected the five postulated factors, thus partially supporting the factorial validity of this questionnaire.