Factor Structure of ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale in Pakistani Culture

The aim of the research is to examining the psychometric properties of the ENRICH Marital Satisfaction scale by using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, which had been established for western married couples. The EMS was developed by Fowers and Olson (1993), which measures marital satisfaction and idealistic distortion. The data was gathered from six distinct Punjab’ cities. The study 1 included a total of 280 participants, 119 working married women (42.5%) and 161 non-working married women (57.5%) for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and study II included 206 participants, 130 working married women (63.11%) and 76 non-working married women (36.89%) employing confirmatory factor analysis. The final structure of the scale utilizing the common factor analysis approach with two factors, one factors containing all the positive items and other factor containing all the negative items. The reliability of overall scale was α = .89, the first factor α = .91 and the other factor α = .77. To validate the factor's structure, the CFA was performed on a new sample (n = 206). The CFA showed that the two-factor solution of this scale, with values of χ2 (84) = 171.38, χ2/df = 2.04; RMSEA =.06; normed fit index (NFI) = .91; Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) = .94 confirmatory fit index (CFI) = .95; incremental Fit Index (IFI) = .95 had a satisfactory model fit. For intervention study and marital counseling, it is important to highlight negative aspects of marriage which was previously not considered by EMS.