Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
Busby Relationship Adjustment Assessment
14-item Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) by Busby, Crane, Larson & Christensen (1995), looking at relationship adjustment across consensus, satisfaction, and cohesion.
What the RDAS Measures
The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) is Busby, Crane, Larson, and Christensen 1995 update to Spanier classic DAS from 1976. The original DAS had four subscales, but factor analyses kept finding problems with two of them. The RDAS cleaned that up.
It has 14 items across three dimensions:
- Consensus (6 items): Do you agree on major decisions, values, and how affection is shown?
- Satisfaction (4 items): How stable does the relationship feel? How often do conflicts escalate?
- Cohesion (4 items): Do you do things together? Talk things through?
The split-half reliability is 0.94, and confirmatory factor analysis supports the three-factor structure. It correlates at r = 0.97 with the full DAS.
Scoring Guide
Score range 0-64. Three dimensions: Consensus (0-24), Satisfaction (0-20), Cohesion (0-20). Total < 48 suggests relationship distress.Result Interpretation
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