Spousal Conflict Arousal: Scale Development

A conflict arousal scale is developed as a tool to conduct empirical research in family decision making. The scale's reliability and validity are examined and reported. Finally, several applications of the conflict arousal scale are discussed and additional research areas are specified.

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