Criterion-Related Validity of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale

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Abstract
The mean responses on the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale from 212 wives from intact marriages and 8 wives who had recently separated from their husbands were significantly different. That difference did not appear to be an artifact of social desirability since it decreased only slightly among subjects scoring zero on marital social desirability. The results provide new, if quite limited, support for the criterion-related validity of the marital satisfaction scale. Other characteristics of the scale paralleled previous research, with the new finding that, by controlling for marital social desirability, it was possible to reduce substantially, but not eliminate, some of the nonnormal characteristics of the distributions of the scores.