. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2005 Sep 13.

Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2004 Feb;45(2):387–395. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00229.x

Table 1.

Variability and inter-rater reliability of communication variables¹

	Mutuality	Directiveness	Disagreement	Withdrawal	Support
Mean	5.45	4.35	1.78	2.26	4.7
Standard deviation	1.15	1.28	.53	.64	1.25
Minimum	3.08	1.92	1.06	1.25	2.88
Maximum	8.00	8.94	2.88	4.42	7.25
Inter-rater reliability²	.94	.87	.79	.84	.85

Rated by four independent raters on a scale from 1 to 9.

Cronbach’s alpha.