TITLE Family Adjustment, Parental Attitudes, and Social

The relationship between the degree of marital adjustment and the emotional. adjustment orthe children within the family is widely accepted as is the corollary belief that the marital relationship determines the child's adjustment. A sample of 69 ma'rried couples,with children was used to exaP.ine the-interrelationships among several measures of family adjustment and to explore the role of the social desirability response set on the self-report of marital and child adjustment. Subjects completed the Spouse Observation Checklist, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the Louisville Behavior Checklist, the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory