An analysis of the internal consistency and criterion validity of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale in a sample of 299 African-American wives and 589 African-American husbands provided support for the use of this global measure with African-American couples. Results of the same psychometric tests with comparison groups of Caucasian husbands (n = 1, 511) and wives (n = 1, 818) were strikingly similar.
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