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Wives' Perceptions of Marital Decision Making

Family Environment, College of Home Economics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011

The objective of this study was to determine the relative importance of socioeconomic and demographic, value and goal orientation, perception, sociability, and satisfaction variables in explaining marital decision making as perceived by wives. The sample con sisted of 163 nuclear families living in small towns in southwestern Iowa. Multivariate regression was used to analyze the data. The results of this study partially supported the general hypothesis that sociability and psychological factors would be more closely asso ciated with marital decision making than socioeconomic factors.

The findings indicated that marital satisfaction, going places together as a family, and the family income were positively related to joint decision making. On the other hand, the wife's employment outside the home, seeing and visiting with friends from work, the wife's perception of income adequacy, not being able to meet large bills, and the wife's inclina tion toward authority versus equality in regard to education were negatively related to joint decision making.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, 146-153 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7700500302


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