How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage - Clifford R. Adams; Vance Packard

Below is a list of activities or things. If you feel about the same way toward them now that you did three or four years ago, draw a circle around S. If you have partly changed your feelings toward them, draw a circle around P. If your feeling now is considerably different from your feeling three or four years ago, draw a circle around D.

1.	Pacifism.	S	P	D
2.	Labor unions.	S	P	D
3.	Less governmental supervision of business.	S	P	D
4.	Old-age pensions.	S	P	D
5.	Sit-down strikes.	S	P	D
6.	Socialization of medicine.	S	P	D
7.	Emphasis that colleges place upon activities.	S	P	D
8.	The Soviet Union.	S	P	D
9.	Distribution of wealth.	S	P	D
10.	Capital punishment.	S	P	D
11.	Sterilization of the feeble-minded.	S	P	D
12.	“Work-or-starve” relief legislation.	S	P	D
13.	Need for polls like the Gallup or Fortune polls of public opinion.	S	P	D
14.	Basing taxation on the ability to pay.	S	P	D
15.	Preferences for styles of homes.	S	P	D

TRAIT IX (Seriousness)

Below is a list of topics which people consider to some extent at one time or another. Will you indicate the degree of thinking you have given each of them during the past year by drawing a circle around M if you have done much thinking; around S if you have done some thinking; around L if you have done a little thinking; and around N if you have done no thinking.

1.	Responsibilities that parents and children should share.	M	S	L	N
2.	Proper training of children.	M	S	L	N
3.	Immoral influences of movies on children.	M	S	L	N
4.	Smoking of cigarettes by girls and women.	M	S	L	N
5.	Importance of regular saving of part of income.	M	S	L	N
6.	Use of the atomic bomb in warfare.	M	S	L	N
7.	Regular attendance of religious services.	M	S	L	N
8.	The way or place to spend your vacation.	M	S	L	N
9.	Stricter censorship of books and magazines.	M	S	L	N
10.	Learning to dance, ski, skate, etc.	M	S	L	N
11.	Punctuality on a job or regular class attendance.	M	S	L	N
12.	Getting better grades at school or working for a promotion.	M	S	L	N
13.	The cost of living.	M	S	L	N
14.	Life after death.	M	S	L	N
15.	Automobile accidents caused by reckless driving.	M	S	L	N

TRAIT X (Family Background)

Be absolutely truthful in taking this test; try to be objective and honest with yourself. Answer Yes or No if possible; if you can’t decide Yes or No, then circle the question mark.

1.	Were your own parents quite happily married?	YES	?	NO
2.	Did you have a happy childhood?	YES	?	NO
3.	Did you have a great deal of love and affection for your mother?	YES	?	NO
4.	Did you have a great deal of love and affection for your father?	YES	?	NO
5.	Did you get along well with your mother without any serious conflict?	YES	?	NO
6.	Did you get along well with your father without any serious conflict?	YES	?	NO
7.	Was your home discipline firm but not harsh?	YES	?	NO
8.	Was the punishment that you received both mild and infrequent?	YES	?	NO
9.	Is your present attitude toward sex free from disgust or aversion?	YES	?	NO
10.	Was at least one of your parents easy to talk to, and frank, about matters of sex?	YES	?	NO
11.	Were you reared in either the country, a small town, or the suburbs of a city?	YES	?	NO
12.	Do you go to church three or four times (or more) every month?	YES	?	NO
13.	Are you regularly employed?	YES	?	NO
14.	Do you have many friends of your own sex?	YES	?	NO
15.	Do you belong to three or more social organizations?	YES	?	NO

Directions for Scoring Your Tests

Do not read these scoring directions until after you have taken the tests. When you have marked the tests according to the directions, then you are ready to score them. Because all the tests are not scored in the same way, be sure you score them very carefully. After having done so, then turn to the further directions, some of which apply to a man, some of which apply to a girl.