中華心理衛生協會

The phenomenon of transnational marriage resulted from the twist of the international capitalism and the effect of domestic social stratification has happened very wide-spreadly Taiwan for years, yet people usually give it an unfavorable impression. However, the transnational marriage is the same marriage to every common marriage in which the intimate relationships are developed and their emotion is attached to. That is to say it shall be the most important factor for measuring one's happiness of her/his marriage to see what degree the satisfaction to the intimate relationships is in their families. This article explores their family life from the perspective of ”intimate relationship” and also tries to clarify its negative cognition from the outsiders.The research is undertaken by a questionnaire survey and choosing the brides from China in Penghu area as the research subject. Some interesting findings are as follow. First, the intimate relationship is not as low as common thought in transnational marriage family. Second, the ”appreciation feeling” is the most prominent aspect in four conjugal affections. Third, ”old husband and young wife” is really a general phenomenon but no significant negative effect on their conjugal affection and marriage evaluation. Fourth, it seems that there is no bad relationship between Chinese brides and their mother in laws. Finally, most of the Chinese brides agree that their marriages are the right choices. From the above findings, we believe that there are so many biases and misunderstandings, which do not fit the facts to the transnational marriages.