Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated of predicting success or failure in marriage fro background and personality factors. The present study reports an attempt to predict marital adjustment from adjustment of the couple during engagement. An engagement adjustment scale was devised, similar to the standard marriage adjustment scale and validated by sucuring statistically significant differences in mean adjustment scores between broken and nonbroken engagements for men of 146.4 and 153.1 and for women of 144.2 and 153.2, respectively. The reliability of the scale is indicated by a correlation of responses from a retest seven months later of .75 \pm .05 for the men and .71 \pm .06 for the women. The correlation between the engagement adjustment scores of the members of the 505 couples was .53 \pm .03. The feasibility of predicting marital adjustment was shown by a correlation of .43 \pm .04 for the men and .41 \pm .04 for the women between the engagement adjustment scores and marital adjustment scores secured three years after marriage. Improvement of the engagement adjustment score should increase its value as a predictive instrument. Combining the engagement adjustment score with the background score and the personality score should improve the efficiency of predicting before marriage the marital adjustment of engaged couples.
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