Two new scales in the field of couples and marriage counseling: The inclusion of other in the self scale and Turkish self-change in romantic relationships scale

Duygu Dincer,Halil Eksi,Arthur Aron

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20184801053

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This study had two aims. One aim was to adapt the Inclusion of Other in the Self (IOS) Scale into the Turkish cultural context. The second aim was to develop the Turkish Self-Change in Romantic Relationships Scale (TSCRRS) based on the existing Relational Self-Change Scale. The research process for this study consisted of four stages. In the first stage, forward-backward translation of the IOS Scale was performed to determine bilingual equivalence. In the second stage, an item-pool was created to measure self-change in romantic relationships. In the third stage, data were collected to determine the reliability and validity of the TSCRRS (N = 426). In the fourth stage, new data were collected to determine the validity and reliability of the IOS Scale and the TSCRRS (N = 348). All of the participants were in a romantic relationship. The findings revealed that both the TSCRRS and the IOS Scale have good reliability and validity.

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People in a romantic relationship can experience positive and negative changes related to their self-concepts
The length of their relationships ranged from 5 months to 120 months; the mean relationship length was 28.9 months (DF = 2.47), In the second stage, based on the existing Relational Self-Change Scale (RSCS) [1], the Two-dimensional Model of the Relational Self-change [1], and a focus group conducted with Turkish college students were used to create an item-pool to measure self-change processes in romantic relationships
1.2.4 The Turkish Self-Change in Romantic Relationships Scale (TSCRRS): The authors of the current paper developed the 16-item TSCRRS based on the existing Relational Self-Change Scale (RSCS) [1], the Two-dimensional Model of the Relational Self-change [1], and a focus group conducted with Turkish college students to assess the perceived self-change processes in couple relationships

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People in a romantic relationship can experience positive and negative changes related to their self-concepts. In 2014, three social psychology researchers, Brent Mattingly, Gary Lewandowski, and Kevin McIntyre proposed a new psychological model called the Twodimensional Model of Relational Self-change to conceptualize these self-changes, and they developed a scale based on their model [1] According to this model, self-changes in a romantic relationship can occur based on two dimensions: direction and valence [1, 2]. The direction of the self-concept is related to increases or decreases in the content of an individual’s self-concept, but the direction of the self-concept is associated with the subjective aspects of the changes in that person’s self-concept [1, 2] Based on this conceptualization, there are four types of self-concept changes: selfexpansion, self-pruning, self-contraction, and self-adulteration [1].

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