Dyadic Adjustment Scale (and Revised DAS).
DAS / RDAS
- What it measures
- Quality of marital/cohabiting dyadic adjustment; subscales Dyadic Consensus, Dyadic Satisfaction, Dyadic Cohesion, Affectional Expression; RDAS gives Consensus, Satisfaction, Cohesion
- Length and format
- 32 (DAS); 14 (RDAS). mixed Likert (mostly 6-point agreement / frequency) + a few yes/no (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. Slovak, Persian, French, Spanish, Romanian and dozens more
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Spanier, G. B. (1976). Measuring dyadic adjustment. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38(1), 15-28. (DAS distributed via MHS; https://mhs.com)
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