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Spanish version of the Investment Model Scale

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Voluminous work has catalogued the utility of Rusbult's (1980) investment model of commitment processes in understanding why some relationships persist whereas others fail. To date this work has been conducted almost exclusively with samples of English‐speaking individuals. To facilitate testing novel hypotheses among Spanish‐speaking populations as well examining various cross‐cultural questions, we present a Spanish version of the Investment Model Scale (Rusbult, Martz, & Agnew, 1998). With a sample of Spanish‐speaking individuals from Chile, we demonstrate that our translation has the same structural properties as the English version (Study 1) and has good predictive validity (Study 2). The Spanish version of the Investment Model Scale will enable researchers to sample a larger subset of the population and allow for the examination of cultural influences on relationship processes.

Source: Personal Relationships

DOI: 10.1111/pere.12016

Authors: LAURA E. VANDERDRIFT, CHRISTOPHER R. AGNEW, JUAN E. WILSON

Institutions: Syracuse University, Purdue University West Lafayette, University of Chile

Language: English

Topic: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2114975809

FWCI: 0.478

Cites: 36

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10