I think marital happiness is something that has surely evolved over time, whereby marriages in the past were for different reasons, like bringing families together, financial or social reasons, etc..
Marital quality was measured by the four - item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, a scale that includes items about marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier,
Marital quality was measured by the four - item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, a scale that includes items about
marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier,
marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and
thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier, 1976).