Publication Date

11-1984

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Louella Fong, Delbert Hayden, Richard Mason

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Original department Home Economics & Family Living

Degree Program

Department of Sociology

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

The present study investigated the relationship between the marital adjustment of 73 couples and the degree of their marital role congruence. Data were compiled from questionnaires completed separately by each husband and wife. No significant relationships were found among the well adjusted and poorly adjusted couples relative to their role discrepancy scores. However, negative correlation between for the subgroup of husbands these whose opposite direction on adjustment. a significant variables was reported wives scored in the While the difference was not significant, wives reported higher levels of marital adjustment than did husbands.

Disciplines

Family, Life Course, and Society | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology

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