Motivation and maturity patterns in marital success

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Published: Aug 1, 1978
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1978.6.2.163
Issue: Volume 6, 1978, Issue 2
Keywords:
social behavior, social psychology, motivation, maturity, patterns, marital, success, satisfaction, interpersonal, competitive, game, Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity, phallic, adventurousness

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David C. McClelland
Harvard University
Cathy Colman
Harvard University
Kathleen Finn
Harvard University
David Winter
Wesleyan University
Cite this article:  McClelland, D. C., Colman, C., Finn, K., & Winter, D. (1978). Motivation and maturity patterns in marital success. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 6(2), 163-172.


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Married couples rated their marital satisfaction and played an interpersonal competitive game which revealed the success with which they interacted. Younger husbands who score more mature on the Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity tend to belong to more successful marriages, as judged by both criteria, as do college educated wives who show less immaturity and more phallic adventurousness.
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