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Development and testing of the codependency assessment tool

C Hughes-Hammer¹, D S Martsolf, R A Zeller

¹Kent State University, OH 44242, USA.

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

|October 30, 1998

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Codependency poses health risks, especially for women in harmful relationships. The new Codependency Assessment Tool offers a reliable way to identify codependency, aiding therapeutic interventions and promoting freedom from such dynamics.

Area of Science:

Psychology
Mental Health
Relationship Studies

Background:

Codependency presents significant health risks, particularly for women, often leading to abusive relationships.
Effective therapeutic interventions require reliable methods for identifying codependent individuals.
Existing measures for codependency lack consistent reliability and validity.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a reliable and multivariate tool for assessing codependency.
To conceptualize codependency as a construct encompassing five distinct factors.

Main Methods:

Development and rigorous testing of the Codependency Assessment Tool (CAT).
Multivariate analysis to establish the tool's psychometric properties.
Assessment of reliability (test-retest, Cronbach's alpha) and validity (criterion, construct).

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Main Results:

The Codependency Assessment Tool demonstrates excellent reliability, with test-retest reliabilities ranging from .78 to .94 and Cronbach's alpha from .78 to .91.
Criterion validity was confirmed using known groups.
Construct validity was supported by comparing codependency dimensions with depression measures.

Conclusions:

The Codependency Assessment Tool is a reliable and valid instrument for identifying codependency.
This tool can facilitate the identification of individuals needing therapeutic support for codependency.
The five-factor model provides a comprehensive understanding of the codependency construct.