Marital Adjustment: A Factor Analysis Study

Locke-Wallace Short Marital-Adjustment Test: Psychometric Evaluation in Caregivers for Persons With Primary Malignant Brain Tumor

“…The first subscale of Contentment & Communication is a mix of the assessment of global satisfaction of marriage and communication in marital life, which may partially correspond to factors extracted from the Locke and Williamson (1958) 20-item instrument, Companionship, Agreement, and Euphoria. Considering the particular population of this study, communication with the care recipient may become more difficult and the care recipient’s impaired function may potentially compromise the general satisfaction of marital life.…”

“…Burgess and Cottrell (1939) first adopted the method of factor analysis to assess predictive factors of marital success and extracted five factors (agreement; common interests and joint activities; affection and mutual confidences; complaints; and feelings of being lonely, miserable, and irritable) from 28 of their 97 marital-prediction variables. Locke and Williamson (1958) conducted a factor analysis of their 20-item Marital Adjustment Test, extracting eight factors with only five interpretable. These five factors were Companionship (or Couple Sufficiency), Agreement (or Consensus), Affectional Intimacy (or Emotional Adjustment), Masculine Interpretation (or Wife Accommodation), and Euphoria (or Halo Effect).…”

Research on the Marital Relationship: A Critical Review

“…This instrument, however, was published as a measure of marital adjustment rather than the success or the happiness label that earlier users of the items had applied. Later, Spanier (1976) developed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale which is an enension of the same items as those used by Terman (1939) and Locke and his colleagues (e.g., Locke, 1947: Locke & Wallace, 1959Locke & Williamson, 1958).…”

Family measurement techniques: Locke marital adjustment scale and the dyadic adjustment scale

“…The LMAT was revised by Locke and Williamson (1958) and a short form was developed by Locke and Wallace (1959). The Locke-Wallace Short Marital Adjustment Scale (LWSMAS) has a .90 split half reliability and demonstrated validity.…”