Marital Self-Disclosure and Marital Satisfaction

This study examined relationships between self-disclosure and marital satisfaction. On selfreport measures, husbands' disclosure to wives was positively related to, and predictive of, husbands' marital satisfaction; wives' disclosure to husbands was a positive predictor of husbands' marital satisfaction; wives' disclosure to husbands was positively related to, and predictive of, wives' marital satisfaction; and the amount of discrepancy between disclosure of husbands and wives was negatively related to, and a negative predictor of, husbands' marital satisfaction. Behaviorally, the duration of time that husbands spent disclosing to wives was a negative predictor of husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction.