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Marital Satisfaction A s Perceived by Wives

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

This study was designed to determine the relative importance of specific sociological, economic, and psychological variables in explaining marital satisfaction. Data were collected from 163 two- parent 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 associated with marital satisfaction than would socioeconomic factors.

The findings indicated that going places together as a family and marital decision making (jointly made by husbands and wives) regarding the best place for the family to live were positively related to marital satisfaction. On the other hand, borrowing and exchanging favors frequently with neighbors and frequency of money problems related to savings were negatively related to marital satisfaction.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, 226-233 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7900700403


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