Developing a Marital Attachment Needs Scale

Objective: this research was conducted to develop a marital attachment needs scale basedon a mixed method research.methods: in the first phase, attachment interviews were conducted with 35 married people(18 male and 17 female). based on this step, the first version of the marital attachment needsscale (mans) was developed with 12 items. to develop the first version of the mans, these12 items are designed on a 5-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. in thesecond phase of the research, 140 married people (62 female and 78) male completed theinitial form of the marital attachment needs scale. in addition to the marital attachmentneeds scale, to examine the convergent and divergent validity psychometric indexes, themarital conflicts scale (mcs) and the short form of the experienced close relationship scale(ecr-s) were used.results: factor analysis showed a g-factor with an eigenvalue of 6.26 and a variancepercentage of 52.19. the alpha coefficient and test-retest reliability coefficient for manswere 0.90 and 0.92, respectively. also, the results showed efficient convergent and divergentvalidity for the marital attachment needs scale. to check the g-factor hypothesis,confirmatory factor analysis (ml) was used. the results of the ml confirmatory factoranalysis confirm the extracted g-factor in pc exploratory factor analysis for the mans.conclusions: overall, the results of this research indicated the adequacy of the psychometricproperties of the marital attachment needs scale for clinical and research jobs.