Nordin Noratthiah, Halford William Kim, Barlow Fiona K, Mastor Khairul A
Fakulti Kepimpinan dan Pengurusan, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2023 Oct;49(4):825-841. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12659. Epub 2023 Aug 6.
Relationship standards are beliefs about what is important in high-quality couple relationships. Clarifying standards cross-culturally informs theory about relationship quality and goals for culturally appropriate couple therapy. The current study assessed four standards (Couple Bond, Family Responsibility, Relationship Effort, and Religion) in n = 113 Malay Muslim couples, and the association of those standards with marital satisfaction. All four standards were strongly endorsed, Religion was the most strongly endorsed, and there were minimal sex differences. Separate actor-partner interdependence models showed actor effects of all four standards on own satisfaction for husbands and wives, partner effects of three of the four husbands' standards (not Relationship Effort) on wives' satisfaction, but no partner effects of female standards on male satisfaction. The findings underscore the importance of all four standards in Malay Muslim marriages and that attention to all these standards might need to be part of couple therapy with Malay couples.
关系标准是关于高质量夫妻关系中重要因素的信念。跨文化地阐明标准有助于完善关于关系质量的理论以及适合不同文化背景的夫妻治疗的目标。本研究评估了113对马来穆斯林夫妇的四个标准（夫妻纽带、家庭责任、关系投入和宗教信仰），以及这些标准与婚姻满意度之间的关联。所有四个标准都得到了强烈认可，宗教信仰得到的认可最为强烈，且性别差异极小。单独的行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型显示，所有四个标准对丈夫和妻子自身的满意度都有行为者效应，四个丈夫标准中的三个（不包括关系投入）对妻子的满意度有伴侣效应，但女性标准对男性满意度没有伴侣效应。研究结果强调了所有这四个标准在马来穆斯林婚姻中的重要性，并且在对马来夫妇进行夫妻治疗时，可能需要关注所有这些标准。
