Download or read book Predicting Marital Conflict Using Marital Couples' Shared Reality about Division of Labor written by Charity E. Kemp and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined whether the similarity in partners' perceptions of division of labor predicts marital conflict. The hypothesis of this study is that the greater the discrepancy in spousal perceptions of division of labor, the greater the marital conflict. The 686 couples were taken from the first wave of the Flourishing Families Project (FFP), a longitudinal study of inner-family life involving families with a child between the ages of 10 and 17. A shared reality matrix was used to analyze the holistic pattern of wife and husband responses on the Division of Labor Scale. MANOVA was performed to test the division of labor patterns of high conflict couples against those of low conflict couples. The R-squared statistics were not particularly large for any one univariate test, but the multivariate test showed that the overall pattern of results accounts for 33% of the variance in high versus low marital conflict. Greater spousal perception discrepancy predicted higher conflict, while similar perceptions predicted lower conflict.