الخصائص السيكومترية لمقياس نوعية العلاقة الزواجية في البيئة الفلسطينية و مستوى جودة الحياة الزواجية للمتزوجين الفلسطينيين

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify the factorial structure of the marital quality scale through two steps: Firstly, discovering the components of marital quality by using exploratory factor analysis.

The initial version the scale consisted of (47) items distributed on a sample consisted of (127) married persons.

After that, (19) items remained with four factors: family functioning, marital hostility, marital communication and interaction, and marital adjustment.

Secondly, confirmatory factor analysis was performed based on a sample of (220) married persons.

The results of confirmatory factor analysis relatively support the results of exploratory factor analysis with minor changes.

The final version of the scale included (17) items.

The results indicate that the level of marital quality was high.

Based on the results, some recommendation is presented, namely, conducting this type of studies on huge sample size to reexamine the structure of marital quality among the Palestinians.