Table 1.

Linkages between Demand-Withdraw Patterns in Marital Conflict in the Home and Topics

			Husband demand-Wife withdraw		Wife demand-Husband withdraw

Topic	M	SD	γ ₁₀	t-value	γ ₁₀	t-value
Husband report (N = 110 husbands / 1,284 conflict instances)
Child	0.33	0.47	-0.154	-1.02	0.082	0.48
Marital	0.53	0.79	0.398	4.18^*	0.457	3.29^*
Social	0.58	0.65	-0.156	-1.70	0.079	0.34
Work	0.35	0.57	0.167	1.35	0.339	2.42
Wife report (N = 116 wives / 1,638 conflict instances)
Child	0.36	0.48	-0.125	-0.93	-0.342	-3.06^*
Marital	0.62	0.85	0.410	5.36^*	0.645	8.56^*
Social	0.60	0.69	-0.391	-4.26^*	0.229	2.11
Work	0.36	0.58	0.355	3.31^*	-0.069	-0.60

Note. Analyses control for husbands’ and wives’ marital satisfaction scores. M and SD presented for topic composites: Child (child); Marital (intimacy, communication, commitment, habits, personality); Social (relatives, leisure, friends, chores); and Work (work, money).

p ≤ .013 (.05/4).