Sixteen questions about how you currently evaluate a marriage or established partnership.
Method and research sourcesThe questionnaire by Aleshina, Gozman, and Dubovskaya focuses on the evaluative side of marital satisfaction: feelings toward the partner, agreement on daily matters, conflict, comfort at home, tenderness, and an overall appraisal.
Each question has four item-specific options scored 0–3. Eight questions are keyed in the opposite direction behind the scenes. The 16 scores form a total from 0 to 48.
The Russian State Library record identifies the original 1987 manual. International reviews provide broader context for relationship-satisfaction measurement and its determinants.
Ю. Е. Алешина, Л. Я. Гозман, Е. М. Дубовская
Thomas N. Bradbury, Frank D. Fincham, Steven R. H. Beach
Janette L. Funk, Ronald D. Rogge
Related resources address couple communication, attachment, and support—not a diagnosis.
Preparing for family therapy, agreeing on goals and children’s involvement, understanding separate conversations and confidentiality, and assessing progress.
Understand what is happening in your relationship, choose a safe conversation, clarify time apart, and consider couples or individual support.
Reflect on agreement, satisfaction, shared activities, and affection in a current couple relationship with the 32-item DAS.
Explore attachment-related anxiety and avoidance in romantic relationships with the 36-item Experiences in Close Relationships–Revised.
The original wording is marriage-centered, but an established cohabiting or committed couple can use it as a reflection tool while noting that validation was not designed for every relationship form.
No. Satisfaction is subjective. Different scores can reveal different experiences, but comparison should be voluntary and respectful.
No. Safety requires separate attention. Control, fear, threats, coercion, or violence matter regardless of the total.
