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Exploring Marital Expectations

University of Connecticut, USA

John Pearce

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Marital comparison levels, i.e. the outcomes that a person realistically expects and feels are deserved from a relationship, are often assumed (in the social exchange framework) to be involved in the evaluation of marital outcomes. The present study examines factors influencing such expectations in a sample of 301 married individuals. Expectation levels positively co-vary with the importance attributed to them. In addition, relational commitment emerges as the most powerful co-variate of expectations. Finally, age emerges as a co-variate of expectations for both males and females with relatively older men and relatively younger women having higher expectation levels.

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 3, No. 3, 307-321 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407586033004


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