Affect and Status Dimensions of Marital Adjustment

administered measure of afftctive structure (inventory of Family Feelings) was also administered. Major findings are (1) adjusted couples communicated more affection and submission than did maladjusted ones, (2) all couples were more likely to show complementary sequencing patterns with some interesting differences between groups. Data from the self-report measure were quite consistent with the affective dimension of the behavioral coding system.