Responses to modified versions of the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the Kansas Parental Satisfaction Scale were obtained from a nonrandom sample of 58 Korean-American interracial couples living near Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The items were factored using principal axis factoring with varimax rotation. Each scale's items loaded on the factors as expected, with some minor exceptions, for both the English and Korean translations.
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