Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:04:45 -0500
From: Thomas F Brown <tombrown@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Subject: Re: Help on Social Change
To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu
Message-id: <97Mar21.010450edt.3695-5@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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        I agree with the post that advised caution with operationalization
of "marital tension."  Michael Lucas suggests that you try "Marital
Satisfaction," and this is a plausible idea.  I should note, however, that
there is a general consensus about the fact that marital satisfaction is
not the same as "marital happiness." 
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I would guess that self-reported measures of marital satisfaction 
could be subject to Lake Woebegone effect. This is certainly true
of job satisfaction.