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The Relationship Assessment Scale

Texas Tech University

Amy Dicke

Texas Tech University

Clyde Hendrick

Texas Tech University

This paper offers new information on the reliability and validity of the Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS; Hendrick, 1988), a seven-item generic measure of relationship satisfaction. The RAS shows moderate to high correlations with measures of marital satisfaction, good test-retest reliability and consistent measurement properties across samples of ethnically diverse and age-diverse couples, as well as partners seeking marital and family therapy. The RAS is an appropriate, useful and brief measure for partnered love relationships in a wide variety of research settings.

Key Words: relationship satisfaction • marital satisfaction • measurement • assessment

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 15, No. 1, 137-142 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407598151009


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