The internal consistency and validity of marriage values scales among young married women in Isfahan

Abstract

Background and Aim: One of the important issues that can help the survival or collapse of the family is the values of people. In fact, the values that people have give direction to their life and help them in the path of family life. Methods: This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the validity and internal consistency of marriage values among married women in Isfahan city. Therefore, the research was of the type of contextualization and tool making. All married women between 20 and 30 years of age in Isfahan made up the statistical population of this research. The statistical sample was 300 married women between 20 and 30 years old who were selected as available. The research tools included the scale of marriage values and the scale of willingness to divorce (Dehgani & Yousefi, 2019). The data were analyzed in two descriptive and inferential sections. Results: The results showed that the internal consistency of the dimensions of this scale and the internal consistency of the questions were appropriate. The frequency distribution of the dimensions was close to the normal distribution, except for the dimensions of own family values and peace, which had a positive skew, the other dimensions had a normal distribution. The evidence of convergent validity showed that all values had a meaningful relationship with the desire to divorce, except for religious values, having children, and peace. Which confirms divergent validity for the three mentioned values and convergent validity for other values. The results of exploratory factor analysis using varimax method showed that this scale has 15 factors. Conclusion: Based on these findings, it can be concluded that the scale of marriage values has desirable psychometric properties and can be used in educational and research fields.