The Past and Present Married Life Questionnaire was administered to 92 adults to study the convergence between past and present evaluations of satisfaction for different spheres of married life and to assess the relation of convergence to current marital satisfaction. Greater convergence was associated with greater current satisfaction on the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale.
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