assessed both individual and relational well-being and examined how these are related to

specific couple conflict types.

 Purpose

 The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of couple conflict type on

new parents' division of labor (particularly the extent to which partners share household

and child-related tasks), marital disaffection, and individual well-being. A cross-sectional

survey method was used to study couples who recently transitioned to first-time

parenthood. The sample included 132 married couples whose child was between 2 and 13

months of age at the time they completed the survey. The primary variables included for

study were (a) the type of couple conflict behavior, (b) the extent to which couple's role

expectations about parenting formed before the birth of the baby were met, (c) the

couple's division of household labor, specifically their sharing of household and child

care tasks, (d) partners' satisfaction with their family roles, (e) the couple's level of

marital disaffection, and (f) partners' level of individual well-being.

 Research Questions

 To guide the examination of the variables described above, the following research

questions were devised:

1. Do task differentiation (of family household tasks and child-related tasks), violated
 expectations, marital disaffection, individual well-being, age, infant age, income
 level, and each of the couple conflict type scores (volatile, validating, conflict-
 avoiding, and hostile) serve as predictors of role dissatisfaction?

2. Do task differentiation (of family household tasks and child-related tasks), role
 dissatisfaction, marital disaffection, individual well-being, age, infant age, income
 level, and each of the couple conflict type scores (volatile, validating, conflict-
 avoiding, and hostile) serve as predictors of violated expectations?

3. Do task differentiation (of family household tasks and child-related tasks), role
 dissatisfaction, violated expectations, individual well-being, age, infant age, income