Validity of Edmond's Marital Conventionalization Scale

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Abstract
Edmonds's Marital Conventionalization Scale (MCS) has received wide acceptance as a valid measure of the tendency of some survey respondents to describe their marriages in socially desirable but impossibly perfect terms. His research has supported the validity of the MCS as a response set associated with various measures of a conservative, traditional, or “conventional” orientation. In the present study a popular abbreviated version of the MCS was administered along with the other measures of “conventionality” to 181 married couples randomly selected from two midwestern communities. Correlational analysis of the measures failed to confirm the construct validity of the MCS as defined by Edmonds. Because of the questionable association found between the MCS and conventionality, it was purposed that the response set in question be more accurately renamed “marital social desirability” (MDS) rather than “marital conventionalization”.

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