Background:

This is a follow up of the research presentation at the last NANNNA conference. Nigerians are the largest African Immigrants in the rapidly increasing immigrant populations in the United States of America. The process of acculturalization is laden with challenges, including marital dissatisfactions. Nigerian immigrants are best suited to identify the causes of marital dissatisfaction among this population.

Methods: We conducted fifteen in-depth interviews via zoom from July to December 2021. Recorded interviews were transcribed by three research assistants and transferred to NVIVO 12 Plus for thematic analysis.

Results: Several themes related to marriage dissatisfaction were identified, including 1) physical, mental and financial abuse, 2) Acculturation, 3) Controlling husband, 4) Lack of care and attention, 5) Lack of communication, 6) Lack of time for intimacy, 7) Lack of trust, and 8) in-laws’ interferences.

Discussion: The identified themes will be used to themes to refine or affirm IMDQ. KMS will help to validate IMDQ. Factor analysis will reveal moderate to high Cronbach’s alpha for the refined IMDQ.