Describe your audience and topics. Makeform creates a marriage satisfaction survey with consistent scales and optional reflections for counselors or researchers to edit.
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Audience
Couples beginning or reviewing counseling
Format
Private check-in with a five-point agreement scale
Prompt size
325 chars
Example survey structure
Private check-in with a five-point agreement scale
We can discuss difficult topics respectfully
I feel emotionally connected to my spouse
We repair disagreements in a way that works for us
One strength in our marriage
One topic I would like to discuss
Suggested analysis tags
Communication
Connection
Shared responsibilities
Keep one direction and the same labels for every rating scale.
Step 1
Define
audience, purpose, and relationship areas
Step 2
Build
balanced items on one consistent scale
Step 3
Share
private link with clear expectations
Step 4
Review
patterns, context, and conversation topics
Better questions, clearer reflection
Stable scales, distinct topics, and optional context produce clearer responses than a vague good-or-bad score.
Separate feeling heard from resolving conflict; a respondent may rate them differently.
Use the same labels and direction, plus not applicable where needed.
Optional reflections capture strengths and context that numbers miss.
Adapt the survey
Match the structure to counseling, research, workshop evaluation, or personal reflection.
A separate response path preserves each spouse's perspective.
Explain visibility, minimize identifiers, and describe anonymity accurately.
Repeat core items and use self-created codes to match responses without names.
Remove assumptions and let participants skip intimate or irrelevant questions.
Survey workflow
Define the purpose, then make responses predictable and easier to interpret.
State the audience, response format, topics, and intended use.
Ask one thing per item, label the scale, and add not applicable when needed.
Explain purpose, visibility, optional items, effort, and how to stop.
Review topics and comments together; treat results as input, not a diagnosis.
Choose the response design
Each approach answers a different question. Decide before drafting, because response ownership changes the wording, privacy statement, and way results can be compared.
Field guide
Six focused sections create a rounded view while keeping every question tied to a recognizable relationship experience. Edit, shorten, or reorder them to match your purpose.
Communication
Use distinct items for feeling heard, expressing needs, and discussing difficult topics.
Conflict and repair
Ask whether disagreements can pause, reach workable decisions, and lead to repair.
Connection and support
Separate appreciation, affection, support, and time together; allow skips for personal items.
Shared life
Use separate, conditional items for household work, finances, caregiving, and decisions.
Strengths and goals
Open responses reveal strengths, values, and shared plans a scale may miss.
Overall reflection
Place overall satisfaction beside domain ratings and comments, without clinical cutoffs.
Related tools
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Open toolCollect scheduling context, goals, and background before an initial counseling appointment.
Open toolRepeat core questions before and after a workshop or program for structured comparison.
Open toolAsk about routines, priorities, and everyday context that may support broader research.
Open toolDraft a response flow that avoids direct identifiers when the study design calls for anonymity.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for counselors, workshop facilitators, and researchers designing a thoughtful questionnaire.
It is a structured questionnaire about a person's experience of marriage, often covering communication, connection, conflict repair, support, responsibilities, goals, and overall satisfaction. It can organize reflection or research data but is not a diagnosis or validated assessment.
Use focused items about communication, repair, connection, support, decisions, finances, responsibilities, time together, and goals. Finish with overall satisfaction plus optional reflections on strengths and priorities.
A five-point agreement scale is easy to follow. Label each option, keep one direction throughout, and add not applicable when needed. Put frequency questions on a separate labeled scale.
Separate responses preserve each spouse's perspective. A joint response captures what the couple agrees to submit. State the format and visibility clearly before either person answers.
Yes, when the process avoids identifying participants. Remove contact fields, limit free text, and use broad ranges or self-created codes where appropriate. A public link alone is not anonymous.
You can summarize items or domains if you explain the calculation and avoid invented clinical thresholds. For a published instrument, follow its authorized wording and scoring instructions.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Explain why you ask, collect only what is needed, and make intimate written responses optional. Offer not applicable or prefer not to answer and state who can see responses.
Turn broad check-ins into thoughtful questions.
