title: [Reliability and validity of marital love scale in middle- aged and elderly couples].
abstract: A marital love scale was created to study the marital quality of middle-aged and elderly couples, and the scale's reliability and validity were examined. In this study, 888 middle-aged and elderly married participants completed the marital love scale questionnaire as well as answering questions regarding marriage satisfaction and husband-wife communication. In all age groups, men scored higher than women on the marital love scale. The marital love score gradually increased from the middle-aged to the senior period, and like the marriage satisfaction score, the marital love score showed a U-shaped curve in the whole married life. The results also showed that the scale was highly correlated with marriage satisfaction and spousal self-disclosure. Thus, the validity and internal consistency of the marital love scale were confirmed.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Humanities, Bunkyo Gakuin University, Kamekubo, Fujimino 356-8533, Japan. yukoito@bgu.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sagara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*