Locke-Wallace

Name ___________________________________                                                                   Male          Female
 

Marital Adjustment Test
1. Check the dot on the scale below which best describes the degree of happiness, everything considered, of your present marriage. The middle point, "happy," represents the degree of happiness which most people get from, marriage, and the scale gradually ranges on one side to those few people who are very unhappy in marriage, and on the other, to those few who experience extreme joy or felicity in marriage.
 
        0                                   2                              7                             15                                  20                                  25                                             35
      .                 .                .               .                  .                  .                        .

   Very                                                                      Happy                                                                                Perfectly
  Unhappy                                                                                                                                                              Happy

 
State the approximate extent of agreement or disagreement between you and your mate on the
      following items. Please check each column.
 
  Always 
Agree		 Almost 
always 
Agree		 Occa- 
sionally 
Disagree		 Fre- 
quently 
Disagree		 Almost 
always 
Disagree		 Always 
Disagree
 
2.   Handling family finances      5     4        3        2     1      0
3.  Matters of recreation      5      --     --       --     --     0 
4.  Demonstration of affection      8     6        4         2       1      0
5.  Friends      5      4        3        2      1      0
6.  Sex relations     15      12         9         4       1       0
7.  Conventionality (right, good, or proper  
     conduct)		      5      --   --     ---    --       0
8. Philosophy of life      5       --    --     --     --       0
9. Ways of dealing with in-laws       5       ---    --    --    --       0
 
 10. When disagreements arise, they usually result in:
       Husband giving in    0                Wife giving in    2      Agreement by mutual give and take  10

11  .Do you and your mate engage in outside interests together:
      All of them    10               Some of them   8             Very few of them   3            None of them  0

12. In leisure time do you generally prefer: 1        To be "on the go,"          To stay at home?

13.  Do you ever wish you had not married?
      Frequently    0                    Occasionally     3                    Rarely    8                Never  15

14.  If you had your life to live over, do you think you would:       Marry the same person  15
          Marry a different person     0                            Not marry at all   1
 
15. Do you confide in your mate:  Almost never 0      Rarely  2    In most things 10    In everything 10


 Maximum score possible =158    Note:  Scores not on page given to couples
1  Both stay = 10    Both go = 3   Disagree = 2
  To Self-report