CENTRAL RELATIONAL WISHES - CONCEPT AND DEVELOPMENT OF A DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENT

Refering to KONIG's concept of central relational wishes, a self-repor t instrument was developed. It refers to the diagnostic assessment of the following relational wishes and the corresponding anxieties and co nflicts: The wishes for fusion, for relating to a person exactly like oneself, for being unconditionally accepted, the wish to be nurtured o r to nurture some other person, the wish for being controlled or contr ol somebody else, the wish for being admired because of gender charact eristics. Furthermore, the wish for a dyadic relationship and a self-o bject-relationship are diagnostically assessed. The questionnaire was applied in several empirical studies. In this paper, results refering to internal consistency, re-test-reliability and factor structure are reported. Correlations with well established diagnostic instruments (G ieBen-Test, Symptom-Check-List SCL-90-R, Inventory of Interpersonal Pr oblems) support the validity of the instrument.