Quality of Marriage Index.
QMI
- What it measures
- Global relationship quality (unidimensional), deliberately using general evaluative rather than specific-behavior items
- Length and format
- 6 items. mixed (five 7-point agreement items + one 10-point global item) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple languages (used internationally, e.g., infertility-sample validations)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Norton, R. (1983). Measuring marital quality: A critical look at the dependent variable. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 45(1), 141-151.
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