Examine Your Life - Marital Satisfaction
The following questionnaires are just to help you identify difficulties you may be facing in various areas of your life.  They are not intended to replace professional help needed from a counseling or clinical psychologist, or physician.

 

Marital Satisfaction

MARITAL QUIZ ONE

Here is a quiz used in a research project by three marriage and family specialists (Howard Markman, Scott Stanley & Susan Blumberg) that can help you to decide how healthy is your marriage. These questions focus on the best predictors of marital distress and divorce:

 
  1. Do routine discussions often erupt into destructive arguments?
  2. Do you or your partner often withdraw or refuse to talk about important issues?
  3. Do you or your partner often disregard what the other says, or do you often use put-downs
  4. Does it seem as if the things you say to your partner are often heard much more negatively than you intended?
  5. Do you feel that there has to be a winner and loser when you disagree?
  6. Does your relationship often take a back seat to other interests?
  7. Do you often think about what it would be like to be with someone else?
  8. Does the thought of being with your partner a few years from now disturb you?

MARITAL QUIZ TWO

By Dr. Walter W. Husdon, 1993

Below are sample questions from Index of Marital Satisfaction (IMS) by Walter W. Hudson.  IMS is designed to measure the degree of satisfaction you have withy your present marriage.  It is not a test, so there are no right or wrong answers.   Answer each item as carefully and a accurately as you can by placing a number beside the follow questions.

  1. None of the time

  2. Vary rarely

  3. A little of the time

  4. Some of the time

  5. A good part of the time

  6. Most of the time

  7. All of the time

  1. My partner is affectionate enough
  2. I feel that I would choose the same partner if I had to do it over again.
  3. I feel that I can trust my partner.
  4. We have a lot of fun together.
  5. Ours is a close relationship
  6. I feel that we have enough interest in common.
  7. My partner is a real comfort to me.
  8. I feel there is no excitement in our relationship
  9. I feel that our sex life is lacking quality

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