Perceptions of Color Preferences—A Clue to Marital Prediction?

Summary

In a study of marital adjustment prediction (N = 75 couples), each spouse was asked to indicate a color preference for nine common household articles and predict which color the spouse would choose. A discrepancy score between perceived and actual choices was calculated and compared with scores on the Nye-MacDougall Marital Adjustment Scale. The correlation coefficient between the discrepancy score and ego's marital adjustment was —.27 for the sample as a whole, —.33 for husbands, and —.21 for wives. The correlation between the discrepancy score and mate's marital adjustment was —.17 for the whole sample, —.10 for husbands, and —.23 for wives.