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Social Competence and Marital Adjustment
Author(s) -
Filsinger Erik E.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8000900208
Subject(s) - psychology , competence (human resources) , social competence , social psychology , developmental psychology , social change , political science , law
The argument is made that social competence would be related to marital adjustment. Data were collected on a community sample of 44 men and 39 women. Marital adjustment was related to the individual's self‐perceived social competence. In general, a manipulative inter personal orientation was negatively related to marital adjustment for females, but need for dominance was positively related to dyadic cohesion for males. The results are discussed in terms of their conceptual significance and their implications for home economists.