TABLE 1.
Descriptive Statistics of Mother and Father Marital Satisfaction
| Time | MMS1 3 months |
MMS2 5 months |
MMS3 7 months |
MMS4 12 months |
MMS5 20 months |
FMS1 3 months |
FMS2 5 months |
FMS3 7 months |
FMS4 14 months |
FMS5 20 months |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | 119.69 | 118.01 | 117.73 | 117.03 | 115.10 | 117.03 | 117.15 | 117.87 | 117.16 | 115.26 | |
| SD | 18.27 | 19.62 | 19.99 | 22.58 | 22.09 | 21.03 | 20.39 | 19.83 | 20.76 | 21.29 | |
| Correlations | |||||||||||
| M | |||||||||||
| MMS1 | 1.00 | ||||||||||
| MMS2 | .73 | 1.00 | |||||||||
| MMS3 | .66 | .79 | 1.00 | ||||||||
| MMS4 | .61 | .7,3 | .69 | 1.00 | |||||||
| MMS5 | .55 | .62 | .63 | .74 | 1.00 | ||||||
| M&F | F | ||||||||||
| FMS1 | .57 | .52 | .48 | .39 | .50 | 1.00 | |||||
| FMS2 | .62 | .64 | .57 | .48 | .58 | .77 | 1.00 | ||||
| FMS3 | .51 | .52 | .52 | .50 | .49 | .65 | .79 | 1.00 | |||
| FMS4 | .46 | .48 | .49 | .57 | .58 | .59 | .70 | .66 | 1.00 | ||
| FMS5 | .43 | .45 | .43 | .49 | .65 | .59 | .71 | .70 | .77 | 1.00 | |
Note. MMS = mother marital satisfaction; FMS = father marital satisfaction. The correlations were all significant at the .001 significance level. The correlations are from three blocks. The M block contains the correlations among mothers over time, the F block contains the correlations among fathers over time, and the M&F block contains the correlations between mothers and fathers at each time point and over time.