GENDER AND MARITAL SATISFACTION - A REPLICATION USING A 7-POINT ITEM RESPONSE VERSION OF THE KANSAS MARITAL SATISFACTION SCALE

In a subsample of married individuals, 97 married men and 154 married nomen, who had participated in a larger study of retention of church m embers, an effect size of 0.28 was found between gender and marital sa tisfaction as measured by the standard 21-point, three-item Kansas Mar ital Satisfaction Scale. The results are consistent with previous repo rts of a gender effect associated with marital satisfaction, including an analysis of another subsample of the same larger study in study a 15-point version of the scale was used.