THE CENTRAL RELATIONSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE - INITIAL REPORT

This study presents an initial evaluation of the psychometric properti es of the Central Relationship Questionnaire (CRQ). a measure of centr al relationship patterns. These patterns refer to people's characteris tic ways of relating to significant others in terms of their wishes, t heir perceptions of others' responses to them, and their own responses to both of these. The self-report CRQ is derived from L. Luborsky's ( 1977) clinician-rated Core Conflictual Relationship Theme. Overall, th e results indicated that the CRQ components could be differentiated in to meaningful subscales. These subscales were internally consistent, d emonstrated significant stability over a pear, and evidenced prelimina ry convergent and divergent validity with measures of interpersonal pr oblems and symptomatology. It is concluded on the basis of these promi sing results that the CRQ merits. further empirical development. Speci fic suggestions for accomplishing this are presented.