Research Proves eHarmony Married Couples are Significantly Happier

Research Proves eHarmony Married Couples are Significantly Happier
eHarmony Announces Noteworthy Results of Latest Clinical Studies
Pasadena, CA - Mar 15, 2004

As part of ongoing efforts to monitor and improve the success of its groundbreaking, patent-pending Compatibility Matching System, eHarmony recently released the results of its latest research. The research indicates that couples who were matched by eHarmony, the Internet’s fastest growing relationship service, and have married, are significantly happier than couples married for a similar length of time who met by other means. Over 90% of eHarmony couples had marriage quality scores which were above average when compared to couples who had begun their relationships elsewhere. eHarmony couples were more than twice as likely to be in highly successful marriages than non-eHarmony couples. “This news is another clear indication that the eHarmony matching algorithm works,” said Dr. Neil Clark Warren, clinical psychologist and founder of eHarmony. “Not only are eHarmony couples 35% more likely than other married couples to report that they enjoy spending time together, but we found they are nearly twice as likely to report that their marriages are “extremely happy” or better versus other recently married couples.”

The research surveyed 1,320 married couples, 273 of which were couples introduced via eHarmony.com. The goal of the study was to determine if marriages between eHarmony’s highly compatible couples are more successful than marriages “in general.” The research was conducted by psychologist Dr. Steve Carter, eHarmony’s director of research and product development, and research associate at the University of Southern California. Click here to see the complete research paper.

In order to ensure scientific validity, the measure of marital satisfaction used was the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) developed by Dr. Graham Spanier. The DAS has been used in more than 1,000 published studies since it was introduced in 1976, and it is generally considered to be one of the most accurate and reliable measures of marital satisfaction available. eHarmony couples scored significantly higher in regard to all four components of relationship quality measured by the Dyadic Adjustment Scale: Consensus, Satisfaction, Affectional Expression and Cohesion.