Table 4-4. Continued
Model B P t Significance
3 Constant 2.040 5.263 < .001
 TD (C) .036 .386 4.957 <.001
 EXP-C -.411 -.249 -3.201 .002
 HSTL .438 .220 3.061 .003
 4 Constant 3.657 4.964 < .001
 TD (C) .037 .390 5.124 < .001
 EXP-C -.409 -.248 -3.252 .001
 HSTL .379 .190 2.669 .009
 WLB -.022 -.182 -2.561 .012


 Question 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?

 Because researchers only recently have begun examining husbands' violated

expectations, participants' individual score (rather than the couple's averaged score) on

the violated expectations measure was designated as the dependent variable. Individual

rather than couple scores were used for the set of variables comprising the independent

variable (household and child-related task differentiation, role dissatisfaction, marital

disaffection, individual well-being, age, infant age, income level, and the participant's

ratings of the volatile, validating, conflict-avoiding, and hostile couple conflict types).

Two stepwise multiple regression analyses were completed, one for wives and one for

husbands. For wives, there were two steps in the analysis, producing a final model

explaining the variance in their violated expectations with an R2 of .320. The first step in

the analysis identified wives' role dissatisfaction as a significant predictor variable

(P = -.527, t = -7.075,p < .001). Wives' role dissatisfaction had an R2 of .278 and was a

significant predictor in the initial model (F (1, 130) = 50.060, p < .001). The second step