Dimensions of Marital Well-Being among White and Black Newlyweds

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Abstract
Four dimensions of marital well-being emerged in a factor analysis of 12 items asking a random sample of newlyweds (199 blacks and 174 white couples) to evaluate their overall marital quality. These dimensions, which were identified as happiness, equity, competence, and control, relate to various facts about respondents, such as their sex, cohabitation history, education, and income, differentially for blacks and whites. For example, income is positively related to competence for blacks but negatively associated with competence for whites, and living together before marriage is negatively related to happiness for blacks but is unrelated to happiness for whites. The dimensions are analyzed in terms of four basic issues to be asked of factors of well-being: the direction of affect, the self versus world orientation, the time orientation, and how spontaneous or reflective the evaluations are. Predictions are made for how these dimensions may shift as newlyweds progress in their marriage.

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