A Measure of marital Intimacy

부부간 친밀간 척도개발에 관한 연구

The first purpose of this study was to review literatures on marital intimacy. The second purpose was to develop a theory-derived scale to measure marital intimacy. From an original lists of 32 items developed from literatures, the survey was practiced. The data were collected from 344 married adults who had been married more than 5 years. Through this process, a final lists of 19 item scale that were covering 4 different aspects of affectional, sexual, committed, cognitive marital intimacy yielded. reliability estimate assessed by Cronbach's coefficient is .903. Content Validity was evidenced by jury logical opinions. Construct Validity was tested in relation to Spanier's DAS scale.