TY - JOUR
T1 - Marital Satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates
T2 - Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale
AU - Al-Darmaki, Fatima Rashed
AU - Hassane, Sofoh H.
AU - Ahammed, Shaima
AU - Abdullah, Abdullah Seif
AU - Yaaqeib, Saad Ibrahim
AU - Dodeen, Hamzeh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Marital satisfaction is a culturally bound construct influenced by many traditional family values and processes. Research on marital satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates is very limited perhaps due to unavailability of a culturally relevant scale. In this study, the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS) was constructed and validated based on a community sample of 407 Emirati married men and women. The 30-item unidimensional EMSS was found to have high construct validity and internal consistency reliability estimates. The validity of the EMSS was supported by the positive correlations between marital satisfaction and life satisfaction and self-esteem. Men reported higher level of marital satisfaction than women. Demographic variables such as religious commitment and living location affect marital satisfaction in the Emirates. Implications for research and practice were provided.
AB - Marital satisfaction is a culturally bound construct influenced by many traditional family values and processes. Research on marital satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates is very limited perhaps due to unavailability of a culturally relevant scale. In this study, the Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale (EMSS) was constructed and validated based on a community sample of 407 Emirati married men and women. The 30-item unidimensional EMSS was found to have high construct validity and internal consistency reliability estimates. The validity of the EMSS was supported by the positive correlations between marital satisfaction and life satisfaction and self-esteem. Men reported higher level of marital satisfaction than women. Demographic variables such as religious commitment and living location affect marital satisfaction in the Emirates. Implications for research and practice were provided.
KW - Emirati Marital Satisfaction Scale
KW - UAE culture
KW - marital satisfaction
KW - marriage in UAE
KW - satisfaction with life
KW - state self-esteem
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U2 - 10.1177/0192513X14547418
DO - 10.1177/0192513X14547418
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981249434
SN - 0192-513X
VL - 37
SP - 1703
EP - 1729
JO - Journal of Family Issues
JF - Journal of Family Issues
IS - 12
ER -