Development of the Chinese Marital Motivation and Reason Inventory / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To develop Chinese Marital Motivation and Reason Inventory (CMMRI) and examine it's reliability and validity. Methods: A 40-items, self-report measure of marital motivation and reason was developed based definition of marital motivation and reason and clinical experiences. The test-retest reliability, split-half reliability, internal consistency reliability, construct validity, and empirical validity were examined in the general sample of 1303 subjects, retest sample of 52 subjects, and validity sample of 95 subjects, aged from 6 to 91 years. Results: The stability coefficients, split-half reliability, Cronbach's ?coefficients were 0.62~0.80, 0.61~0.79 and 0.62~0.80 for 4 dimensions. There were significant differences between subjects in separation and divorcee and subjects in marriage on the CMMRI. In the confirmatory analysis of four factors model, fit statistics for the model best explained the observed relationships between the item scores and they attained the lower x2/df ratios and RMSEA, and higher IFI, TLI, CFI, PNFI and PCFI. Conclusion: The stability, internal consistency, and validity of the CMMRI are good and meet with psychometric standard.