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Published in final edited form as: J Fam Psychol. 2009 Aug;23(4):464–473. doi: 10.1037/a0015982

Table 4.

Results of Hierarchical Regression Analysis of Qualities and Quantities of Change Requests as Predictors of Problem Resolution, Wife Relationship Satisfaction, and Husband Relationship Satisfaction

	Problem Resolution						Wife Satisfaction						Husband Satisfaction

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 1			Model 2			Model 1			Model 2

Variable	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Qualities
Wife Percent Specific	.43	.64	.12	.22	.63	.06	16.15	9.86	.26	13.91	10.50	−.10
Wife Percent Increasing	−.09	.67	−.02	−.07	.65	−.02	−6.95	10.13	−.10	−6.84	10.11	.19
Wife Percent We	.74	.71	.18	.52	.70	.13	15.95	9.57	.22	13.47	9.81	−.14
Husband Percent Specific	1.85	.77	.53	1.76	.75	.51							6.17	10.85	.13	5.97	10.92	.12
Husband Percent	−1.33	.69	−.37	−1.29	.67	−.36							−.37	9.86	−.07	−3.66	9.92	−.07
Increasing
Husband Percent We	−.23	.73	−.06	−.31	.71	−.08							7.19	8.54	.13	7.37	8.60	.13
Quantity
Wife Change Requests				.03	.01	.28				−.23	.21	−.14
Husband Change Requests				.01	.01	.06										−.13	.21	−.07
R²		.20			.27			0.14			0.15			0.03			0.04
F for change in R²		2.28^*			5.16^**			3.32^*			1.17			0.73			0.31

p < .05,

^**

p < .01.