Table 5.

Associations between Leadership/Authority and Marital Satisfaction and Marital Problems Trajectories

	Intercept			Linear Slope
	Estimate (SE)	t ratio	Effect size r	Estimate (SE)	t ratio	Effect size r
Husbands
Marital satisfaction
Husband LA	0.07 (0.20)	0.34	0.03	0.02 (0.04)	0.49	0.04
Wife LA	0.17 (0.22)	0.77	0.06	−0.05 (0.05)	−1.11	0.09
Marital problems
Husband LA	−1.25 (0.82)	−1.52	0.13	0.07 (0.14)	0.48	0.04
Wife LA	−0.22 (0.82)	−0.27	0.02	0.25 (0.18)	1.43	0.12
Wives
Marital satisfaction
Husband LA	−0.11 (0.16)	−0.68	0.06	0.00 (0.04)	0.13	0.01
Wife LA	0.24 (0.22)	1.11	0.09	−0.07 (0.04)	−1.48	0.12
Marital problems
Husband LA	0.55 (0.70)	0.79	0.07	−0.02 (0.14)	−0.12	0.01
Wife LA	−0.86 (0.75)	-1.15	0.10	0.23 (0.16)	1.51	0.13

N = 143 couples. df = 140 for husbands and wives. Effect size r = sqrt [t²/(t² + df)].