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SUMMARY This article reports the findings of a study which investigated the relationship between personal authority (PA) and marital satisfaction (MS). Personal authority is a developmental psy-chosocial stage of life in which the individual terminates the hierarchical boundaries between themselves and their parents, takes full responsibility for their decisions and behaviors, and begins to relate to all other human beings, including parents, as peers. Although it can take a lifetime of purposeful effort to maintain PA, it is assumed that it can be obtained somewhere between the fourth and fifth decades of life (Bray, 1987). lb test the effects of PA on reported levels of MS, fifty-eight married couples filled out the Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire, to measure each indi-vidual's level of PA, and the Marital Satisfaction Scale, Form-C to measure rates of satisfaction within the marital relationship. Results demontrate a clear positive relationship between PA and MS (beta = .28, P < .05) |
