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more than adequate validity and reliability made it a log-
ical choice.
Marriage Adjustment Inventory. The Marriage Adjustment
Inventory (MAI), developed by Manson and Lerner (1962), is
a self-report inventory presenting 157 statements repre-
sentative of what its authors believe to be the 12 most
common problem areas in a marriage: family relations,
dominance, immaturity, neurotic traits, sociopathic traits,
money management, children, interests, physical, sexual,
abilities, and incompatibility. The subject indicates
which of the statements apply to himself or herself, his or
her spouse, or both.
The manual reports no validity or reliability data
for the instrument. Nonetheless, the MAI was chosen as
the adjustment measure for the present study because it
allows each subject to rate not only his or her own adjust-
ment but his or her spouse's adjustment as well.
Trainers
One white male aged 28 and one white female aged 29
served as trainers in the present study. Both were third-
year doctoral students in counseling psychology at Southern
Illinois University. Both had similar levels of training
and experience, as they had completed the same practicum
sequence together. The experimenter had served as a
practicum supervisor for both students. The training for
their roles in the present study focused on detecting
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Thompson, Ron Allan. Effects of Videotape Playback on Causal Attribution in Distressed Couples, dissertation, May 1980; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330670/m1/31/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .