Emotional Maturity and Marital Adjustment.

A random sample of married couples from a middle-class community of about 6,000 was selected; 117 paired, usable questionnaires were obtained (a response rate of 88 percent of contacted families). Using the Dean Emotional Maturity Scale and the Nye Scale of Marital Adjustment, it was determined that the husband's emotional maturity (self-rated) correlated .28 with his marital adjustment score; his emotional maturity as rated by his wife (independently and confidentially) correlated .52. The wife's emotional maturity (self-rated) correlated with her marital adjustment score .35; her emotional maturity (spouse-rated, as above) correlated .39. Marital adjustment scores correlated with each other .59. The hypothesis is regarded as sustained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]