Bringing Couple-Level Measures And Family Contradictions Into Research Through Dyadic Concordance Types*

............................................................................................................................................................. 3 THEORETICAL BASIS AND DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF ................................................................................ 6 DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES .............................................................................................................................. 6 THEORETICAL BASIS ........................................................................................................................................................ 6 COUPLE-LEVEL MEASURE ................................................................................................................................................ 6 ROLE-SPECIFIC .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 VICTIMIZATION AND PERPETRATION .................................................................................................................................. 7 THEORETICALLY OPEN ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE ............................................................................................................................. 7 BROAD APPLICABILITY OF DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES ..................................................................................... 7 PARENTING AND PARENT-CHILD ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Father-Mother DCTs ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Parent-Child DCTs. ................................................................................................................................................ 8 SIBLINGS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 CLINICAL USE OF DCTS ................................................................................................................................................... 8 WHAT DIFFERENCE DO DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES MAKE? ............................................................................. 8 EFFECTS FOR PARTNERS .................................................................................................................................................. 8 EFFECTS FOR CHILDREN ................................................................................................................................................ 10 HOW DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES DIFFER FROM OTHER MEASURES ............................................................... 11 RELATED MEASURES THAT DO NOT PROVIDE WHAT DCTS PROVIDE ..................................................................................... 12 “Mutuality” ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 “Symmetry” ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 “Perpetrator-Only” “Victim-Only”, and “Perpetrator-Victim” ............................................................................ 12 Sum Or Mean ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 Correlation of Dyad Member Scores with Each other. ....................................................................................... 12 HISTORY OF DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES ........................................................................................................ 13 WHAT’S OLD AND NEW? .............................................................................................................................................. 13 EARLY USES OF DCTS ................................................................................................................................................... 13 WHY IGNORED? .......................................................................................................................................................... 14 IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF DYADIC CONCORDANCE TYPES .................................................................... 15 SOURCE OF DATA ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 THREE-CATEGORY AND FOUR-CATEGORY DCTS................................................................................................................. 16 DCTS USING CONTINUOUS VARIABLES ............................................................................................................................ 16 Differences Within DCT Categories .................................................................................................................... 17 GENDER VS PARTNER DCT ............................................................................................................................................ 17 NEEDED SAMPLE SIZE ................................................................................................................................................... 17 EXAMPLE USING ANCOVA TO TEST THEORIES ABOUT VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH EACH DCT ... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. * It is a pleasure to express my appreciation to Maria Testa and Zeev Winstok for many suggestions which greatly improved the paper. Other publications on this and related issues can be downloaded from http//:www.pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2. Earlier phases of the work was partly supported by National Institute of Mental Health grant T32MH15161.