Relationship standards are beliefs about what is important in high-quality couple relationships. Clarifying standards cross-culturally informs theory about relationship quality and goals for culturally appropriate couple therapy. The current study assessed four standards (Couple Bond, Family Responsibility, Relationship Effort, and Religion) in n = 113 Malay Muslim couples, and the association of those standards with marital satisfaction. All four standards were strongly endorsed, Religion was the most strongly endorsed, and there were minimal sex differences. Separate actor–partner interdependence models showed actor effects of all four standards on own satisfaction for husbands and wives, partner effects of three of the four husbands' standards (not Relationship Effort) on wives' satisfaction, but no partner effects of female standards on male satisfaction. The findings underscore the importance of all four standards in Malay Muslim marriages and that attention to all these standards might need to be part of couple therapy with Malay couples.

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关系标准与马来穆斯林夫妇的婚姻满意度

关系标准是关于高质量夫妻关系中什么是重要的信念。澄清跨文化标准为有关关系质量和文化上适当的夫妻治疗目标的理论提供了信息。目前的研究评估了 113 对马来穆斯林夫妇的四项标准（夫妻关系、家庭责任、关系努力和宗教） ，以及这些标准与婚姻满意度的关系。所有四个标准都得到强烈认可，其中宗教受到最强烈认可，并且性别差异最小。单独的演员-伴侣相互依赖模型显示，所有四个标准对丈夫和妻子的自身满意度都有演员效应，四个丈夫标准中的三个（不是关系努力）对妻子满意度的伴侣效应，但女性标准对男性的满意度没有伴侣效应满意。研究结果强调了马来穆斯林婚姻中所有四个标准的重要性，并且对所有这些标准的关注可能需要成为马来夫妇的夫妻治疗的一部分。