| Sumario: | A study was conducted to determine whether a premarital inventory called Facilitating Open Couple Communication, Understanding, and Study (FOCCUS) was a successful predictor of future marital success. The sample was predominantly composed of Roman Catholics from the Midwest, and questionnaires were sent to couples who had completed the FOCCUS inventory five years earlier. Marital quality was measured by the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and a discriminant function analysis was used to evaluate the predictive value of FOCCUS. Findings indicated that FOCCUS scores were able to predict successfully the couples with high quality marriages versus those with poor quality marriages in 67.6 percent to 73.9 percent of the cases, which supports the conclusion that FOCCUS does have good predictive validity. A comparison of FOCCUS with PREPARE, one of the most widely used premarital inventories, suggests that they are similar in relation to their predictive validity.
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