Marital Satisfaction and Demographic Traits in an Emigrant Sample: Rasch Analysis

Previous research has demonstrated that demographic traits have impact on level of marital satisfaction. However, the universality of these findings is limited since the majority of the studies have been conducted in the Western societies. In the present paper, 29 females and 18 males from the Iranian students in Malaysia were assessed for levels of marital satisfaction and the demographic traits such as age, level of education, number of children, length of marriage and level of finance. Data were collected using Latifeh-Shafeq Marital Satisfaction Instrument and was analyzed using Winstep software, version of 3.6. Majority of participants were in satisfied level. In addition, it was evident that age, number of children and length of marriage had some impacts on levels of marital satisfaction negatively. The findings also indicated that participants with high level of education had higher level of marital satisfaction than other. This paper also offers direction for future research.