The Willingness to Invest in Marriage Scales (WIMS) were designed to assess an individual's motivation to improve his or her marital relationship. Convergent validity is examined in a community sample (N = 172) of married individuals (Study 1) and predictive validity for marital problem-solving behavior is examined in a separate sample of couples (N = 66) (Study 2). As predicted, the WIMS demonstrated acceptable convergent validity. Further, in interaction with couple satisfaction, the WIMS accounted for approximately .30 of the variance in husbands' and wives' interactive behavior beyond that accounted for by satisfaction alone. Implications for clinical treatment and future research with clinical populations are discussed.
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