Marital Adjustment: Developing a New Measurement Construct in Indonesia

Abstract

Marital adjustment can be measured using the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). However, the criticisms embedded in watersheds are statistical problems. This study aims to compile and develop a marital adjustment measurement tool in Indonesian. The subjects in the study were as many as 298 people. This research was carried out online and offline. The reliability analysis used Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α), and the validity analysis used the construct validity technique using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The validity of the criteria was tested by comparing the total score of the marital adjustment measuring tool with the total score of the marriage satisfaction measuring tool. The results of this study showed that the reliability was .991 (58 items; N = 58). Meanwhile, the results of construct validity show that the model proposed in this study cannot be said to be suitable, so the marriage adjustment measurement tool has poor construct validity (CFI value < 0.95; RMSEA value > 0.06). In the analysis of the validity of the criteria, it is known that the correlation coefficient of .950 (p < .001), so that the marital adjustment measuring tool has good criteria. Thus, the items that are arranged are good enough to describe the marital adjustment that is to be measured.