Fill in the blank with the number which best represents
the way you and your partner behave.
1 = never
2 = seldom
3 = occasionally
4 = frequently
5 = very frequently
__ 1. How often do you and your spouse talk over
pleasant things that happen to you during the day?
__ 2. How often do you and your spouse talk over
unpleasant things that happen to you during the day?
__ 3. Do you and your spouse talk over things you
disagree about or have difficulties over?
__ 4. Do you and your spouse talk about things in
which you are both interested?
__ 5. Does your spouse adjust what he/she says and
how it is said to the way you feel at the moment?
__ 6. When you start to ask a question, does your
spouse know what it is before you ask it?
__ 7. Do you know the feelings of your spouse from
his/her facial and bodily gestures?
__ 8. Do you and your spouse avoid certain subjects
in conversation?
__ 9. Does your spouse explain or express himself/herself
to you through a glance or a gesture?
__10. Do you and your spouse discuss things together
before making an important decision?
__11. Can you spouse tell what kind of day you have
had without asking?
__12. Your spouse wants to visit some close friends
or relatives. You don’t enjoy their company.
Would you tell him/her this?
__13. Does your spouse discuss matters of sex with
you?
__14. Do you and your spouse use words which have
a special meaning not understood by outsiders?
__15. How often does your spouse sulk or pout?
__16. Can you and your spouse discuss your most
sacred beliefs without feelings of restraint or embarrassment?
__17. Do avoid telling your spouse things that make
you look bad?
__18. You and your spouse are visiting friends.
Something is said by one of them that causes you
to glance at each other. Would you understand each
other?
__19. How often can you tell us much from the tone
of voice of your spouse as from what he/she actually
says?
__20. How often do you and your spouse talk with
each other about personal problems?
__21. Do you feel that in most matters your spouse
knows what you are trying to say?
__22. Would you rather talk about intimate matters
with your spouse than with some other person?
__23. Do you understand the meaning of your spouse’s
facial expressions?
__24. If you and your spouse are visiting friends
or relatives and one of your starts to say something,
does the other take over the conversation without
the feeling of interrupting?
__25. During marriage, have you and your spouse,
in general, talked most things over together? This
scale relates to the dynamics of communication between
two partners of a couple. Included is the individual’s
perception of his/her own communication ability and
perceptions of the partner’s communication
ability.
Items are summed with reverse scoring for items
8,15, and 17, and transposing items 5,6,7,9,11,13,15,21,
and 24 (this means that an individual’s score
for these items is the rating given by the partner).
Both partners, therefore, must complete the inventory
in order for it to be scored. The mean score for
happily married husbands and wives were 105.1 and
105.4 respectively and for unhappily married couples,
81.6 and 81.1.
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