intimate bond measure scores

1
intimate bond measure scores

• high scores on care and low on control are good
  though extreme scores arent necessarily ideal
• in fact what is judged as ideal will vary
  somewhat from couple to couple
• average scores typically are around 25 - 30
  for care and 7 - 12 for control

affectionate constraint
optimal intimacy
care
average
affectionless control
absence of intimacy
control
Wilhelm K Parker G The development of a
measure of intimate bonds Psychol Med
198818225-34
2
IBM scores depression

• care scores are the most important, though low
  care often goes with high control
• depressives who would recover in the next few
  months initially scored 24 for total partner care
• depressives who would not recover in the next
  few months scored 12 for care

normals
care
recovered
affectionless control
not recovered
control
Hickie I et al Perceived interpersonal risk
factors of non- endogenous depression Psychol
Med 199121399-412