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    Marital Happiness Scale

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    This scale is intended to measure marital happiness across 10 different dimensions on a 10-point scale. Partners are asked to rate their current level of happiness with each dimension based on how they expect to feel if their spouse continues with their current behavior. The dimensions include household responsibilities, child rearing, social activities, money, communication, sex, career/education, personal independence, spouse's independence, and general happiness. Partners are instructed to rate each dimension independently without influence from other dimensions and to focus only on current feelings. The scale is meant to identify areas of strength and weakness in the marriage and measure changes over time.

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    This scale is intended to measure marital happiness across 10 different dimensions on a 10-point scale. Partners are asked to rate their current level of happiness with each dimension based on how they expect to feel if their spouse continues with their current behavior. The dimensions include household responsibilities, child rearing, social activities, money, communication, sex, career/education, personal independence, spouse's independence, and general happiness. Partners are instructed to rate each dimension independently without influence from other dimensions and to focus only on current feelings. The scale is meant to identify areas of strength and weakness in the marriage and measure changes over time.

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    This scale is intended to measure marital happiness across 10 different dimensions on a 10-point scale. Partners are asked to rate their current level of happiness with each dimension based on how they expect to feel if their spouse continues with their current behavior. The dimensions include household responsibilities, child rearing, social activities, money, communication, sex, career/education, personal independence, spouse's independence, and general happiness. Partners are instructed to rate each dimension independently without influence from other dimensions and to focus only on current feelings. The scale is meant to identify areas of strength and weakness in the marriage and measure changes over time.

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    Marital Happiness Scale

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    Jeffrey Turner
    This scale is intended to measure marital happiness across 10 different dimensions on a 10-point scale. Partners are asked to rate their current level of happiness with each dimension based on how they expect to feel if their spouse continues with their current behavior. The dimensions include household responsibilities, child rearing, social activities, money, communication, sex, career/education, personal independence, spouse's independence, and general happiness. Partners are instructed to rate each dimension independently without influence from other dimensions and to focus only on current feelings. The scale is meant to identify areas of strength and weakness in the marriage and measure changes over time.

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    Marital Happiness Scale (MHS)

    This scale is intended to estimate your current happiness with your marriage on each of the ten dimensions listed.
    You are to circle one of the numbers (1-10) beside each marriage area. Numbers toward the left end of the ten-unit
    scale indicate some degree of unhappiness and numbers toward the right end of the scale reflect varying degrees of
    happiness. Ask yourself this question as you rate each marriage area: "If my partner continues to act in the future as
    he /she is acting today with respect to this marriage area, how happy will I be I be with this area of our marriage?" In
    other words, state according to the numerical scale (1-10) exactly how you feel today. Try to exclude all feelings of
    yesterday and concentrate only on the feelings of today in each of the marital areas. Also try not to allow one
    category to influence the results of the other categories.

    Completely Completely
    unhappy happy

    Household responsibilities 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Rearing of children 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Social activities 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Money 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Communication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Sex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Academic (or occupational)


    progress 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Personal independence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Spouse independence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    General happiness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Name:
    ______________________________________________________________________________________________

    Date:
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    Refer to accompanying descriptors of categories. Fill out each night of the week. Work on a maximum of 3 areas per week.
    Please rate unattended problem categories. These can act as a ‘control’ or comparison for assessing changes in areas being
    worked on.

    Azrin, N., Naster,B. and Jones, R.


    "Reciprocity counselling: A rapid learning-based procedure for marital counselling"
    Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1973, Vol 11, pp.365-382.

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