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Conceptualizing and Validating Marital Quality in Beijing: A Pilot Study

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  • Huiping Zhang
  • Xiaohe Xu
  • Sandra Tsang

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Since 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. Copyright The Author(s) 2013

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  • Huiping Zhang & Xiaohe Xu & Sandra Tsang, 2013. "Conceptualizing and Validating Marital Quality in Beijing: A Pilot Study," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 113(1), pages 197-212, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:113:y:2013:i:1:p:197-212
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0089-6
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    1. Xiaohe Xu, 1996. "Measuring the concept of marital quality as social indicators in urban China," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 189-206, February.
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