Assessment
name: Revised
Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
Scale
overview: The Revised
Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) is a 14-item self-report assessment of three
categories of a couple relationships (Consensus, Satisfaction, Cohesion).
Authors: Dean M. Busby and others (see Busby et al., 1995)
Response
Type: The items are
rated on a 5- or 6-point scale. High scores represent greater stability and relationship
satisfaction.
Scale
items (Example)
Most persons have disagreements in their relationships.
Please indicate below the approximate extent of agreement or disagreement
between you and your partner for each item on the following list.
1 Religious matters
2. Demonstrations
of affection
******
9. Do you ever
regret that you married (or lived together)?
Psychometric
properties
The authors
report alpha .90.
The RDAS
was moderately correlated with the Marital Adjustment Test (.68) and highly
correlated with the original Dyadic Adjustment Scale (.97).
The RDAS
differentiated between 81% of distressed and nondistressed couples.
Availability: See Appendix A of Busby et al. (1995).
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References
for the scale
Busby, D. M., Christensen, C., Crane, D. R., & Larson,
J. H. (1995). A revision of the dyadic adjustment scale for use with distressed
and nondistressed couples: Construct hierarchy and multidimensional scales. Journal
of Marital and Family Therapy, 21(3), 289-308.
Crane, D. R., Middleton, K. C., & Bean, R. A. (2000).
Establishing criterion scores for the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale. American Journal of Family Therapy, 28(1),
53-60.
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