Validation of Marriage Satisfaction Inventory

Marriage satisfaction has been always of importance to most of the practitioners and family counselors. Marital Satisfaction Inventory is one of the most applied tools which is developed to diagnose marital conflicts. In order to evaluate validity and reliability of this questionnaire it was translated into Persian language and was given to couples who had marital satisfaction problems, and couples who had no marital satisfaction problems. Cronbach's alpha coefficient and internal consistency of individual scales was, which is really high. Reliability coefficients demonstrate the high stability of individual scales with the highest one,. Differential reliability was computed to compare the two groups of satisfied and non-satisfied couples and it could be said that the difference between two groups is significant at. This test can really differentiate between two groups successfully. This study showed that the questionnaire can be used as a reliable diagnostic means of screening, treatment and clinical research about couples who have conflicts over and unsatisfied with their marital lives.