Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS)
- Claudia Alioto
The Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS) (Schumm et al., 1983) is a 3-item scale designed to measure marital satisfaction. Different versions have been created which include a subset of the original 3 items.
Reference
Schumm, W. R., Nichols, C. W., Schectman, K. L., & Grigsby, C. C (1983). Characteristics of responses to the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale by a sample of 84 married mothers. Psychological Reports, 53(2), 567–572. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.567
List of questions
Question number | Question | Original 3-item version | WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS 2-item version |
1 | How satisfied are you with your marriage? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
2 | How satisfied are you with your husband/wife as a spouse? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
3 | How satisfied are you with your relationship with your husband/wife? | ✓ |
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Items which are not included in the original version | ||||
4 | How satisfied are you with your [husband/partner/baby's mother's] contribution to parenting so far? |
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Use of this scale in CLOSER Discovery study questionnaires and datasets
Version | Study | Year | Questionnaire | Dataset |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2007-2009 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2008-2010 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2008-2011 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2008-2011 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2008-2011 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2010-2012 | WCHADS Phase 09 Mother Interview Questionnaire - 30 months | |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2011-2013 | ||
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2012-2014 | WCHADS Phase 12 Mother Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2012-2014 | WCHADS Phase 12 Partner Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2015-2017 | WCHADS Phase 13 Intensive Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2015-2017 | WCHADS Phase 13 Partner Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2017-2019 | WCHADS Phase 14 Mother Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2017-2019 | WCHADS Phase 14 Partner Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2019-2020 | WCHADS Phase 15 Mother Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2020-2021 | WCHADS Phase 15 Mother COVID Only Questionnaire | - |
WCHADS 3-item version | WCHADS | 2020-2021 | WCHADS Phase 15 Mother COVID Retest | - |
WCHADS 2-item version | WCHADS | 2007-2008 | ||
WCHADS 2-item version | WCHADS | 2007-2008 | ||
WCHADS 2-item version | WCHADS | 2007-2009 |