Measures from the marital and family literature were rank ordered by frequency of appearance in the PsycINFO database from 1974–1997. The Family Environment Scale, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales were the instruments found to be most used in research.
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