Assessment of the Perceived Importance of Religion in Couple Relationships in Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and the Nonreligious.

Autor: Skellern SK; School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, Australia., Sanri C; School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, Australia., Iqbal S; Department of Psychology, Federal Urdu University, Karachi, Pakistan., Ayub N; Department of Business Psychology, Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan., Jarukasemthawee S; Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand., Pisitsungkagarn K; Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand., Halford WK; School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Family process [Fam Process] 2022 Mar; Vol. 61 (1), pp. 326-341. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 03.
DOI: 10.1111/famp.12669
Abstrakt: Couple relationship standards (beliefs about what makes for a satisfying couple relationship) have not included standards held about religion, which is surprising given how important religion is in many parts of the world. In the current study, we developed the Importance of Religion in Couple Relationships Scale (IRCRS) with the aim of having a scale suitable for use across different cultural and religious groups. The IRCRS was administered to three samples: 354 Pakistani residents (178 females, 176 males) who identified as Muslim; 274 Thai residents (157 females, 117 males) who identified as Buddhist; and 165 Westerners (resident in Australia or the United States, 60 males, 105 females) who identified as either not religious (n = 74) or Christian (n = 91). We developed a 13-item measure with a two level structure yielding an overall importance of religion score. The items in the IRCRS had acceptable cross-cultural structural invariance in a multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the Pakistani Muslims, Thai Buddhists, and Westerners. Pakistani Muslims endorsed IRCRS standards most strongly, Western Christians next most strongly, Thai Buddhists next, and Westerners with no religion least strongly. There were no gender differences, and only very small differences by relationship status. The IRCRS can be used in future research to investigate the association of religious relationship standards with couple relationship satisfaction and might be a useful clinical tool to assess the importance of religion to couples.
(© 2021 Family Process Institute.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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