Non‐Verbal Communication and Marital Satisfaction

Twenty‐one college couples were identified as maritally satisfied and 21 couples as maritally dissatisfied by the Locke‐Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale. The Marital Communication Scale (MCS), a new behavioral measure of accuracy of marital non‐verbal communication, and the Primary Communication Inventory (PCI), a self‐report measure, were administered to each couple. The results indicate a relationship between marital satisfaction and accuracy of non‐verbal communication as assessed by both measures. The commonality of the two measures was found to be limited, however.