Parental family sociability and marital leisure patterns

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between perceived sociability in the parental family and present marital leisure patterns. The data were collected by means of a stratified area probability sample of middle‐class, intact families in a southeastern U.S. city. There were 431 respondents, 213 husbands and 218 wives, included in the investigation. The results indicate no significant correlation between marital sociability of the respondents and their parents. Controls on stage of family life cycle and intergenerational economic mobility reaffirms the weakness of family leisure perceptions as a factor in marital sociability.