Zhou Ruth D H, Chiu Marcus Y L, Chui Wing-Yip
Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
National University of Singapore.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2017 Jan;43(1):65-81. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12181. Epub 2016 Jul 20.
Metaphors have long been applied to marital counseling and couple therapy. This pioneering study measures marital conceptualization through metaphors. It reports the validation of the Marital Metaphor Questionnaire (MMQ-10), designed to measure the marriage conceptualization of Chinese women through marital metaphors. The MMQ-10 was found to have favorable psychometric properties including reliable internal consistency, a good discriminative prediction of marriage at risk and moderate correlation with a Chinese indigenous multidimensional marital satisfaction inventory. Factor analysis reveals that the MMQ-10 is composed of three dimensions: conjugal relationship, marital anguish, and marital conviction. The MMQ-10 appears to be suitable for the use with Chinese women in premarital or marital counseling sessions. The present researchers hope that this study may support the use of metaphors in future research and clinical practice in other nations and cultures.
隐喻长期以来一直应用于婚姻咨询和夫妻治疗。这项开创性研究通过隐喻来衡量婚姻概念化。它报告了婚姻隐喻问卷（MMQ - 10）的验证情况，该问卷旨在通过婚姻隐喻来衡量中国女性的婚姻概念化。研究发现，MMQ - 10具有良好的心理测量特性，包括可靠的内部一致性、对处于危险中的婚姻有良好的判别预测能力，以及与中国本土的多维婚姻满意度量表有适度相关性。因子分析表明，MMQ - 10由三个维度组成：夫妻关系、婚姻痛苦和婚姻信念。MMQ - 10似乎适用于在中国女性的婚前或婚姻咨询中使用。本研究的研究者希望这项研究能够支持在未来其他国家和文化的研究及临床实践中使用隐喻。
