Development and validation of the Intimate Relationships Happiness Questionnaire
Objective:To develop and validate the Intimate Relationships Happiness Questionnaire(IRHQ).Methods:Firstly,interviews were conducted with 20 participants,investigation were conducted with 100 partici-pants,and vocabulary scoring were conducted with 100 participants formed the originally items.Secondly,801 par-ticipants were recruited to finished the initial scale for items analysis and exploratory factor analysis.Thirdly,480 participants were conducted with the IRHQ,Satisfaction With Life Scale(SLS),Subjective Authentic-Durable Hap-piness Scale(SA-DHS),Chinese Happiness Inventory(CHI)and Marital Happiness Scale(MHS)for confirmatory factor analysis,criterion-related validity and internal consistency analysis.Finally,100 participants were assessed with IRHQ after 2 weeks for test-retest reliability.Results:After items analysis and exploratory factor analysis,29 i-tems were selected as the final scale with a total of four factors that accounted for 63.76％of the variance in all for IRHQ,4 factors including body harmony,mental harmony,fitting-value and sexual relationship satisfac-tion.Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the four-factor model had a goof structural fit(x2/df=2.89,P＜0.001,TLI=0.93,CFI=0.94,RMSEA=0.04).The scores of IRHQ was positively correlated with the scores of SLS,SA-DHS,CHI and MHS(ICC=0.27-0.72,Ps＜0.001).The internal consistency reliabilities of the total score of the scale and the score of the 4 factors were 0.74,0.73,0.72,0.78 and 0.90.The retest reliabilities were 0.87,0.83,0.88,0.88 and 0.90.Conclusion:The Intimate Relationships Happiness Questionnaire meetsthe psy-chometric standard and could be used to assess the intimate relationship well-being.
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