Sex-Role Congruency and Marital Quality

Abstract

Drawing upon a probability sample of 331 military couples (662 spouses) on nine United States and seven European bases; the present study examined the congruency of sex-role attitudes of husbands and wives and assessed how these attitudes are related to the quality of the couple's relationship. The results of the study documented the importance and independence of sex-role attitude congruency as an explanatory variable in marital research. Although it was predicted that couples with congruent sex-role attitudes would report higher marital quality than couples with incongruent sex-role attitudes, this prediction was only partially supported. The marriages found to have the lowest evaluation of marital quality were those with a traditional husband and a modern wife. The results from the study were discussed in the context of past research that failed to find a significant relationship between sex-role attitudes and marital quality. Implications for future research were suggested.

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