Olson and Portner 's instrument, Faces II, is compared to Bales and Cohen's SYMLOG. The first is a method that was specifically designed for the diagnosis of families, whereas the second was designed for the measurement of general social interaction. It was determined that both instruments provide useful information regarding the functioning of the family, but that there is almost no overlap in the information provided; no significant correlations between the results provided by the two instruments was found
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