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Article: Conceptualizing and validating marital quality in Beijing: a pilot study

TitleConceptualizing and validating marital quality in Beijing: a pilot study
Authors
KeywordsMartial quality
Chinese Marital Quality Scale
Chinese marriage
Urban China
Issue Date2013
PublisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0303-8300
Citation
Social Indicators Research, 2013, v. 113 n. 1, p. 197-212 How to Cite?
AbstractSince the inception of the economic reform, marital relationship in urban China has undergone dramatic transformations. Though the burgeoning body of scholarly research has demonstrated that marital quality has increasingly become an important aspect of family life among married persons in urban China, both the conceptualization and measurement of marital quality remain underdeveloped. The purpose of this pilot study is to develop and validate a comprehensive and culturally appropriate marital quality scale, namely the Chinese Marital Quality Scale (CMQS). Results from the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) conducted on a sample of 387 married persons from Beijing indicate that the CMQS can be conceptualized as a two-factorial and multidimensional construct, encompassing marital happiness, marital interaction, marital disagreement, marital problem, and marital instability. Additional statistical analyses also indicate that the CMQS has exhibited satisfactory reliability and concurrent validity. It is thus concluded that the CMQS is a reliable and valid instrument to measure marital quality in contemporary Beijing and possibly in other Chinese cities.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/164599
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 2.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.965
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dc.contributor.authorZhang, H-
dc.contributor.authorXu, X-
dc.contributor.authorTsang, SKM-
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-20T08:06:36Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-20T08:06:36Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citationSocial Indicators Research, 2013, v. 113 n. 1, p. 197-212-
dc.identifier.issn0303-8300-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/164599-
dc.description.abstractSince the inception of the economic reform, marital relationship in urban China has undergone dramatic transformations. Though the burgeoning body of scholarly research has demonstrated that marital quality has increasingly become an important aspect of family life among married persons in urban China, both the conceptualization and measurement of marital quality remain underdeveloped. The purpose of this pilot study is to develop and validate a comprehensive and culturally appropriate marital quality scale, namely the Chinese Marital Quality Scale (CMQS). Results from the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) conducted on a sample of 387 married persons from Beijing indicate that the CMQS can be conceptualized as a two-factorial and multidimensional construct, encompassing marital happiness, marital interaction, marital disagreement, marital problem, and marital instability. Additional statistical analyses also indicate that the CMQS has exhibited satisfactory reliability and concurrent validity. It is thus concluded that the CMQS is a reliable and valid instrument to measure marital quality in contemporary Beijing and possibly in other Chinese cities.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands. The Journal's web site is located at http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0303-8300-
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Indicators Research-
dc.rightsThe original publication is available at www.springerlink.com-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectMartial quality-
dc.subjectChinese Marital Quality Scale-
dc.subjectChinese marriage-
dc.subjectUrban China-
dc.titleConceptualizing and validating marital quality in Beijing: a pilot study-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailZhang, H: zhang_huiping@yahoo.com-
dc.identifier.emailXu, X: xiaohe.xu@utsa.edu-
dc.identifier.emailTsang, SKM: hokitman@hkucc.hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityTsang, SKM=rp00594-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11205-012-0089-6-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-84879643555-
dc.identifier.hkuros210785-
dc.identifier.volume113-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spage197-
dc.identifier.epage212-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000321266000011-
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands-
dc.identifier.citeulike10774355-
dc.identifier.issnl0303-8300-

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