Younger couples reported more task differentiation whereas older couples reported more

task sharing. Child-related task differentiation but not household task differentiation was

significantly associated with marital disaffection (r = .27); couples reporting more task

differentiation reported more marital disaffection.

 Both the couples' average violated expectations score (r = -.39) and the wives'

individual violated expectations score (r = -.40) were significantly correlated with child-

related task differentiation but not household task differentiation; higher child-related

task differentiation scores were associated with lower violated expectations scores

(indicating violated expectations in the direction of wives doing more than expected). A

significant relationship was also found between role dissatisfaction and both the couple's

average violated expectations (r = -.41) and wife's individual violated expectations

(r = -.41); wives individually and couples as a unit who had lower scores on the violated

expectations measure (indicating wives were doing more than expected) reported more

role dissatisfaction. Wives' individual violated expectations (r = -.19) and couples'

average violated expectations (r = -.22) were related to marital disaffection, with scores

indicating the wives were doing more than expected correlated with higher disaffection

levels. Both husbands' (r = .64) and wives' (r = .81) violated expectations correlated

strongly with the couple score; this was to be anticipated since the couple score is simply

an average of the spouses' scores. Besides the couple score, no other variable in the study

was significantly correlated with husbands' violated expectations scores.

 Marital disaffection correlated significantly with role dissatisfaction (r = .41);

couples reporting more disaffection also reported more role dissatisfaction. A negative

correlation of-.21 was found between individual well-being and role dissatisfaction.