Contribución del número de hijos a la magnitud de la satisfacción marital

The magnitude-estimation method from the social psychophysics was used to study the relative importance that menand women, with different number of children, assigned to 63 marital activities. The results were adjusted with a powerfunction from which the exponent describes the rate of relative importance assigned to the activities. For men, the exponentwas progressively lower as the number of children increased. For women, the exponent remained more or less at the samelevel regardless of the number of children. An analysis by marital-interaction areas corroborated the changes in the globalexponents previously described. The importance of social psychophysics to analyze phenomena such as marital satisfactionis discussed.