Longitudinal data from 378 Chinese couples revealed that the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale showed concurrent validity (significant correlations with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and its subscales) and internal consistency (alpha = .93 to .95) over 1 yr.
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