Marital Quality: An Empirical Comparison of Two Unidimensional Measures

Soerjantini Rahaju, Nurul Hartini, Wiwin Hendriani

2018

Abstract

Marital quality was a construct that often interchangeably used with other construct such as marital satisfaction, marital adjustment, marital happiness. This condition brought impact to the variations in its measurement. This research intended to validate the two most frequently used of marital quality inventories that was Quality Marital Index (QMI) and Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS) in Indonesian version using factorial structure and psychometric properties. The participants of this study were 81 heterosexual couples (N═162) with average marriage’s age 16.6 years, and all had minimum 1 child. Confirmatory Factor Analyzed using Lisrell 9.3 revealed that RAS Indonesian form had better internal structure than QMI Indonesian form. Model of QMI was poorly fit, and model of RAS with only 5 items was close fit. RAS-Indonesian form had two items with low standardized factor loadings. Culturally biased in wording and other reasons of these findings were discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rahaju S., Hartini N. and Hendriani W. (2018). Marital Quality: An Empirical Comparison of Two Unidimensional Measures.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 180-186. DOI: 10.5220/0008587001800186

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Soerjantini Rahaju and Nurul Hartini and Wiwin Hendriani},
title={Marital Quality: An Empirical Comparison of Two Unidimensional Measures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={180-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008587001800186},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Marital Quality: An Empirical Comparison of Two Unidimensional Measures
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Rahaju S.
AU - Hartini N.
AU - Hendriani W.
PY - 2018
SP - 180
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0008587001800186