Table 7.
Associations between Entitlement/Exploitativeness and Marital Satisfaction and Marital Problems Trajectories
| Intercept |
Linear Slope |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate (SE) | t ratio | Effect size r | Estimate (SE) | t ratio | Effect size r | |
| Husbands | ||||||
| Marital satisfaction | ||||||
| Husband EE | 0.40 (0.47) | 0.84 | 0.07 | −0.08 (0.09) | −0.84 | 0.07 |
| Wife EE | 0.05 (0.48) | 0.10 | 0.01 | −0.40 (0.14) | −2.82** | 0.23 |
| Marital problems | ||||||
| Husband EE | −1.69 (2.00) | −0.84 | 0.07 | −0.02 (0.36) | −0.07 | 0.01 |
| Wife EE | 3.67 (2.14) | 1.72 | 0.14 | 1.00 (0.50) | 2.02* | 0.17 |
| Wives | ||||||
| Marital satisfaction | ||||||
| Husband EE | 0.42 (0.36) | 1.17 | 0.10 | −0.02 (0.08) | −0.28 | 0.02 |
| Wife EE | −0.05 (0.43) | −0.12 | 0.01 | −0.28 (0.11) | −2.55* | 0.21 |
| Marital problems | ||||||
| Husband EE | −1.82 (1.51) | −1.21 | 0.10 | 0.19 (0.34) | 0.57 | 0.05 |
| Wife EE | 1.11 (1.61) | 0.69 | 0.06 | 0.83 (0.42) | 1.98* | 0.17 |
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.
N = 143 couples. df = 140 for husbands and wives. Effect size r = sqrt [t2/(t2 + df)].