Equivalence of Family Role Measures Based on Husband and Wife Data

Abstract

Analysis of responses of 167 husbands and wives to the Blood and Wolfe family decision and job performance instrument revealed similar distributions of the two sets of responses but substantial discrepancies between spouses. Discrepancies appeared to be randomly distributed and offsetting, suggesting that they may be caused by perceptual differences rather than systematic bias. Except for research intended to discover the distribution of role performance in a population, role structure research requires the development of a more reliable instrument.