Relationship Assessment Scale

Satisfaction in a relationship has been consistently connected with several positive marital outcomes, like marital adjustment, better communication, happiness and well-being and stress coping. The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS; Hendrick et al. J Marriage Family 1998) is a seven-item self-report instrument that measures how one is satisfied in a relationship in terms of fulfilling one’s needs, expectations, and love. It also explores the severity of problems in the relationship. In the present study, we tested the psychometric properties of the Tamil version of the RAS (RAS-T). The confirmatory factor analysis results showed that the data fit the model well for the seven-item, unifactorial structure, indicating that the Tamil version of the RAS is similar to the original version. In addition, the RAS-T showed a moderate association with dyadic coping and dyadic adjustment. The internal consistency for the RAS-T in the present study was found to be 0.73 for men and 0.70 for women. We conclude that the RAS-T could be readily used in the Indian cultural context.