Abstract
This paper reports the results qf a decade replication of research investigating the relationship between both spousal and sela-rated emotional maturity and the marital adjustment of both spouses. Data for this paper are based upon responses of a randomn sample of 143 husband-wife pairs in the same community in which Dean (1966) did his original study, using a random sample of 117 husband-wife pairs. Using the Dean Emotional Maturity Scale and the LockeWallace Short Form, it was determined that husband's emotional maturity (self-rated) correlated .33 with his and .28 with his wife's marital adjustment; husband's emotional maturity (rated independently and confidentially by wife) correlated .27 with his and .51 with his wittf marital adjustment; wife's emotional maturity (self-rated) correlated .39-1iith her and .09 with her husband's; wife's emotional maturity (rated independently and confidentially by husband) correlated .20 with her and .23 with her husband's marital adjustment. Marital adjustment of husband and wife correlated at .50.
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