Investment Scale

Investment Scale
Lund‚ 1985
مقیاس سرمایه گذاری در ارتباط
[Subjects are asked to indicate how large an investment they had made on each item.]
1.    Spending your free time with your partner rather than doing other things or seeing other people.
2.    Continuing the relationship over a period of time (the total length of time you have been involved).
3.    Spending continuous time alone together such as on dates‚ weekend outings‚ or vacations.
4.    Buying gifts for your partner or paying for entertainment (considering both amount and expense).
5.    Sharing important personal feelings‚ problems‚ and beliefs with your partner.
6.    Revealing your sexual experiences/preferences to your partner.
7.    Exploring sexual activities with your partner.
8.    Sharing each other’s homes by exchanging keys‚ keeping belongings at each other’s homes‚ sharing a dwelling‚ etc.
9.    Sharing material possessions such as sporting equipment‚ furniture‚ a car‚ or a house.
10.Sharing something of sentimental value with your partner such as a pet or a musical instrument (considering how important it is).
11.Sharing income and expenses with your partner‚ such as transportation costs‚ food costs‚ or ha‎ving a joint banking account or debts.
12.Contributing financially to your partner or your relationship in general.
13.Trying to develop interests and activities in common with your partner.
14.Making plans for the future such as discussing living together‚ getting married‚ or ha‎ving children.
15.Telling your partner your true feelings about the relationship such as whether you love him or her.
16.Making formal agreements about your relationship such as deciding to go steady‚ get engaged‚ or get married.
17.Letting friends know your feelings and plans about your relationship.
18.Integrating your partner into your family (such as introducing them‚ arranged shared social activities‚ or revealing your feelings and plans).
19.Putting effort into seeing your partner (such as traveling long distances or traveling often).
20.Doing favours for or helping your partner (such as lending money or doing errands).
21.Changing things about yourself to please your partner such as your habits‚ attitudes‚ or appearance.
22.Restricting your relationship with other potential partners such as not dating or ha‎ving sex with others.
23.Changing your career plans or other interests to continue your relationship.
24.Putting effort into “making the relationship work” where there were problems.
25.Trying to encourage and support your partner.
26.Investing emotionally in your partner in general.
شرح سایت روان سنجی: این ابزار میزان سرمایه گذاری عاطفی، اجتماعی، مالی و رفتاری در روابط فعلی را ارزیابی می کند.
اعتبار: آلفا کرونباخ 0.90 (رویزمن؛ کالینز و همکاران، 2005)
چگونگی دستیابی
This instrument can be found at: Healthy Marriages Compendium‚ Part 2
منبع برای آگاهی بیشتر
Lund‚ M. (1985). The development of investment and commitment scales for predicting continuity in personal relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships‚ 2(1)‚ 3-23.
Roisman‚ Glenn I.‚ Collins‚ Andrew W.‚ Sroufe‚ Alan L.‚ Egeland‚ Byron. (2005).Predictors of young adults’ representations of and behavior in their current romantic relationship: Prospective tests ofthe prototype hypothesis. Attachment & Human Development‚ 7(2); 105 – 121.