The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, or DAS, is a relationship adjustment self-report measure. Couples counseling, therapy, office, home are some of the environment in which the DAS is used.
Paper-and-pencil and computer formats of the DAS are available. The participant must answer 32-items which takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes. A 6-scale response is used ranging from “Always Agree” to “Always Disagree.”
Author: Graham Spanier. (1976)
Where to Purchase
References
Spanier,G.B.(1989).Manual for the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. North
Tonowanda,NY: Multi-Health Systems.
Spanier, G.B. (1976). Measuring dyadic adjustment: New scales for assessing the quality of marriage and similar dyads. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38, 15-28.
Spanier, G.B. & Thompson, L. (1982). A confirmatory analysis of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 44, 731-738.
Dissertations and Journals
Graham M. James; Liu, J. Yenling, Jeriorski, L. Jennifer (2006). The Dyadic Adjustment Scale: A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis. Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 701-717.
Hashmi, Hina; Khurshid, Maryam; Hassan, Ishtiaq (2007). Marital Adjustment, Stress and Depression among Working and Non-Working Women. Internet Journal of Medical Update, Vol. 2, Issue 1
Prouty, Anne M.; Markowski, Edward Mel; Howard L. Barnes ( 2000). Using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale in Maritial therapy: An Exploratory Study. The Family Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, 250-257.
