Table 3.

Linkages between Demand-withdraw Patterns in Marital Conflict in the Home and Conflict Emotions and Tactics: Wife Report (N = 116 wives / 1,638 conflict instances)

			Husband demand-Wife withdraw		Wife demand-Husband withdraw
Dyadic Conflict	Descriptive Statistics		γ ₁₀	t-value	γ ₁₀	t-value

Positivity	20.50	10.24	-10.124	-10.30^*	-10.281	-10.93^*
Anger	6.85	8.46	8.962	9.07^*	8.422	8.21^*
Sadness	3.73	6.78	0.615	4.55^*	0.687	5.97^*
Fear	1.51	4.45	0.326	2.59	0.488	3.00^*
Affection	0.47	1.04	-0.370	-1.75	-1.025	-3.83^*
Support	0.46	0.72	-1.593	-6.09^*	-1.208	-5.71^*
Problem Solving	0.81	0.92	-0.915	-4.94^*	-0.842	-6.22^*
Threat	49.0	3.0%	1.466	6.70^*	1.273	5.90^*
Physical Distress	0.11	0.34	0.636	2.78	0.747	4.02^*
Verbal Hostility	0.42	0.79	0.914	6.60^*	1.107	8.59^*
Aggression	0.01	0.12	1.761	4.17^*	2.037	5.72^*
Compromise	0.78	0.93	-0.590	-3.43^*	-1.059	-6.14^*
Apology	0.14	0.39	0.688	3.63^*	0.431	2.51

Note. Analyses control for husbands’ and wives’ marital satisfaction scores. Descriptive statistics include M and SD for continuous variables and frequency and % for binary variables.

p ≤.004 (.05/14).