The Questionnaire of Marital Conflicts: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)

Abstract

The family provides a healthy context for growth and reform. The function of the family is to support the character formation of its members while creating among them the sense of belonging. There have always been several views about the family with healthy and unhealthy functions. What is present in all these views is that a healthy family is a family in which the spouses are in a healthy and effective relationship. However, most of the couples who attend counseling centers state that their main problems are relationship problems and conflicts. So, there have been always necessary to have a tool for measuring the concept of conflict and its dimensions in every cultural context. To meet this need, the questionnaire of marital conflict has been provided which primary from involves 42 questions in 7 subscales; which, in the present research, it has been tried, to evaluate another one of the main dimensions of marital conflict, decreased effective contact, by adding 12 questions to the primary questionnaire. Then, on its confirmatory factor analysis, the present questionnaire was filled out by 270 participants. The results are indicative of optimal psychometric properties (α=0.96), and accepted clinical and scholarly applications.

Exploratory validation of relationship functioning and non-pregnant partner behavior scales in pregnant people living with HIV in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

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“…did not fit the local context), were confusing, or were indistinguishable from other questions on the same scale after translation were deleted. Additionally, two scales (one with a picture that was difficult to adjust to the local context and another with only ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer choices similar to questions on other scales with more variable answer choices) [ 10 , 28 ] were deleted, resulting in 11 scales with 89 questions [ 11–27 ]. We subsequently conducted two rounds of cognitive interviews with 30 total pregnant people attending antenatal care services at Tintswalo hospital prior to conducting interviews with the remaining 58 items from 10 scales with answer choices modified so that they were all coded on the same scale and direction to simplify the analysis.…”

Can Forgiveness Marital Enhancement Programme (Fmep) Reduce Marital Conflict and Augment Subjective Well-Being of Married Couples?

“…Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS) is developed by Thompson, Snyder & Hoffman, (2005) to measure one's overall willingness to forgive with 18 items. HFS is a 7-point Likert scale which spans from 'almost always false of me' (1) to 'almost always true of me' (7). HFS has three subscales: Forgiveness of Self (items 1-6), Forgiveness of Others (items 7-12), and Forgiveness of Situations (items [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

“…Marriage is one of the most lasting relationships between a man and a woman, yet it is not exempted from its conflicts (Warsah, 2020). Some of the possible reasons for marital conflicts can be money, sexual affairs, kindred relations, friends, children, drug use, spending of leisure time, religious differences, infidelity, diminishing mutual love, physical abuse, emotional, financial, and communicative problems (Boostanipoor and Zaker, 2016). Any unresolved conflict will potentially have impacts on physical and psychological health (Ross, Boon, & Stackhouse, 2017).…”