Chinese–Western Intercultural Couple Standards Scale

Hiew, Danika N.; Halford, W. Kim; Vijver, Fons J. R. van de; Liu, Shuang

doi:10.1037/t45460-000

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“…The CCCRS was developed from the Chinese‐Western Intercultural Couples Relationship Standards Scale (Hiew et al., ), which was developed to assess standards drawn from Chinese and Western cultures, but was extended in the CCCRSS to assess standards across a range of cultures (Iqbal et al., Unpublished data). The CCCRS assesses 10 standards, four of which reflect Western relationship standards: demonstration of love, demonstration of caring, intimacy expression, and intimacy responsiveness (Hiew et al., ). Across a range of cultures, these four scales form a superordinate scale called Couple Bond (Hiew et al., ; Iqbal et al., Unpublished data).…”

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“…The CCCRS assesses 10 standards, four of which reflect Western relationship standards: demonstration of love, demonstration of caring, intimacy expression, and intimacy responsiveness (Hiew et al., ). Across a range of cultures, these four scales form a superordinate scale called Couple Bond (Hiew et al., ; Iqbal et al., Unpublished data). The Couple Bond standards are strongly endorsed across diverse cultures, and the strength of their endorsement predicts couple relationship satisfaction (Halford et al., ; Hiew, Halford, Van de Vijver, & Liu, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another four standards in the CCCRSS reflect traditional Chinese values, which also are highly valued in many other Asian cultures (Halford et al., ; Hiew et al., , ; Iqbal et al., Unpublished data). These standards are: relations with the extended family, face, relational harmony, and gender roles.…”

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“…There are three lines of evidence that suggest relationships standards in heterosexuals develop to be strongly aligned to a mix of evolutionary imperatives and broad based cultural normative expectations, which are similar across genders. First, Couple Bond standards have cross‐culturally consistent strong endorsement with only small cultural, and no gender, differences (Hiew et al., ; Iqbal et al., Unpublished data). As noted previously, this has been interpreted as reflecting that these standards reflect evolutionary imperatives to sustain the couple relationship to facilitate child rearing.…”

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“…As noted previously, this has been interpreted as reflecting that these standards reflect evolutionary imperatives to sustain the couple relationship to facilitate child rearing. Second, Family Responsibilities and Religion vary considerably across cultures but little between genders (Hiew et al., ; Iqbal et al., Unpublished data), and people who migrate to a country with a distinctly different culture retain standards aligned with their culture of origin more than the culture of residence (Halford et al., ). This suggests a pervasive effect of culture of origin in shaping certain standards.…”

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Assessment of Couple Relationships Standards in Same‐Sex Attracted Adults

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Halford

2019

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Relationship standards are beliefs about what makes a good romantic relationship. To date, no research on relationship standards in same-sex relationships has been conducted. This paper describes development of the Rainbow Couples Relationship Standards Scale (Rainbow CRSS). In common with measures of relationship standards developed with heterosexuals, the Rainbow CRSS assesses the importance people attach to Couple Bond standards (expression of love, caring, intimacy), Family Responsibility standards (extended family relations, maintenance of face and harmony), Religion, and Relationship Effort standards. The Rainbow CRSS also assesses three standards hypothesized to be of particular importance to same-sex couples: Relationship Outness (public disclosure of the relationship), Sexual Openness (acceptance of open sexual relationship), and Dyadic Coping with Homophobic discrimination. Participants were 414 same-sex attracted men and women who completed the Rainbow CRSS online, plus some validation scales. The Rainbow CRSS showed a coherent two-level factor structure that was similar to that in heterosexual couples for the Couple Bond and Family Responsibility Scales. Same-sex attracted people's standards were similar for men and women, and for singles versus those in a relationship. Same-sex attracted people's standards were very similar in endorsement of Couple Bond, Family Responsibility, Religion, and Relationship Effort standards to those of heterosexuals. The Relationship Outness and Dyadic Coping with Homophobia scales assessed potentially important standards that reflect some distinctive challenges for same-sex couple relationships.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Adapting Heterosexual Couple Relationship Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Adapting Heterosexual Couple Relationship Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Couple Therapy

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Pepping

2019

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This invited paper is a review of the significance of couple relationships to the practice of all therapists. The article begins with a summary of the evidence on the centrality of committed couple relationships to the lives and wellbeing of adults, and the association of the quality of the parents’ couple relationship on the wellbeing of children. We argue that the well-established reciprocal association between individual problems and couple relationship problems means that all therapists need to pay attention to how a couple relationship might be influencing a client's functioning, even if the relationship is not the presenting problem. There is an outline the evolution of current approaches to behavioural couple therapy, and the current state of the art and science of couple therapy. We present an analysis of the evidence for couple therapy as a treatment for relationship distress, as well as couple-based treatments for individual problems. This is followed by a description of the distinctive challenges in working with couples and how to address those challenges, and recommendations about how to address the needs of diverse couple relationships. Finally, we propose some core therapist competencies needed to work effectively with couples.

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Couple relationship standards in Pakistan.

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Ayub

Vijver

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Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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Relationship standards are the beliefs people hold about what a good relationship should be like, which vary substantially across Western and Chinese cultures. The current study extends the assessment of couple relationship standards to Pakistan, a large, developing Muslim majority country with a distinctive collectivistic, hierarchical, religious, and tight culture. We administered the Cross-Cultural Couple Relationships Standards Scale to 354 Pakistanis and compared their standards with those of 312 Westerners living in Australia and 286 Chinese living in Hong Kong, China. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed an acceptable fit of a model of two positively correlated latent factors, Couple Bond and Family Responsibility, in each sample. We added two standards hypothesized likely to be of importance to Pakistanis: Religion and Relationship Self-Regulation. Pakistanis endorsed all standards as important; they endorsed Couple Bond standards more than Westerners or Chinese, and Family Responsibility standards a lot more than Westerners or Chinese. Gender differences were of very small effect size.

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Chinese–Western Intercultural Couple Standards Scale

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Assessment of Couple Relationships Standards in Same‐Sex Attracted Adults

Assessment of Couple Relationships Standards in Same‐Sex Attracted Adults

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