Developing a short form of the marital boundaries questionnaire based on Islamic sources and examining its psychometric properties

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1 PhD in Psychology, faculty of Islamic Humanities and social sciences,Al-Mustafa International University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Humanities Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah University, Qom, Iran

10.30471/psy.2025.10624.2288

Abstract

The 66-item marital boundaries questionnaire was developed and published by Hoshyari (2019) based on Islamic sources. In order to obtain the short form of the aforementioned questionnaire and facilitate its research application, the present study was conducted. This study is a non-experimental cross-sectional study of the type of psychometric studies and its statistical population was all married men and women in the city of Qom. 542 people were selected from the aforementioned population using the available sampling method. The instrument used in this study was the 66-item marital boundaries questionnaire. Items for deletion were identified by examining significant correlations between items and determining homogeneous items with lower factor loading. In all stages of item deletion, theoretical considerations were considered to ensure the content validity of the short form. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the short form for the entire questionnaire is 0.89 and for the components of marital boundaries, it is between 0.72 and 0.83. The similarity of the two forms in the classification of respondents was carried out by assigning respondents to the upper and lower middle classes in the two forms. The kappa agreement coefficient showed that the two forms function homogeneously in the classification of respondents. Finally, the short form of the marital boundaries questionnaire with 35 items is able to measure the five components of specific marital commitment, the limits of couples' sexual interactions, the limits of couples' non-sexual interactions, marital secrecy, and the specific psycho-physical space with appropriate reliability and validity.

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Studies in Islam and Psychology

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 21 April 2025

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