Table 4.
Correlations of Power Imbalance in Couples Scale (PICS) with known survey instruments used in dyadic research (95% confidence intervals)
| Masculine Gender Role Stress | .21 (.09, .33)* |
| Relationship Satisfaction | −.55 (−.65, −.45)* |
| Commitment | −.43 (−.54, −.32)* |
| Quality of Relationship Alternatives | .22 (.12, .31)* |
| Internal Control | −.35 (−.42, −.27)* |
| Depression | .46 (.36, .56)* |
| Mutual Constructive Communication | −.66 (−.72, −.60)* |
| Mutual Avoidance and Withholding | .46 (.37, .56)* |
| Dyadic Trust | −.60 (−.68, −.52)* |
| Anxiety | .34 (.22, .47)* |
| Conceptions of Masculinity: As Physical Appearance | .05 (−.07, .17) |
| Conceptions of Masculinity: As Sexual Behavior | .14 (.05, .23)* |
| Conceptions of Masculinity: As Social Behavior | .35 (.25, .45)* |
| Social Dominance Orientation | .01 (−.16, .18) |
| Lifetime Discrimination | .13 (.01, .24)* |
| Outness | −.22 (−.35, −.10)* |
| Internalized Homophobia | .42 (.30, .55)* |
Notes: N = 434. Correlations were estimated using full-information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimation in Mplus 7.3. Confidence intervals were computed using a robust variance estimator to account for the non-independence of individual respondents nested within couples.
: Statistically significant at p < .05