Perceptions of color preferences-a clue to marital prediction?

In a study of marital adjustment prediction (N = 75 couples), each spouse was asked to indicate a color preference for nine common household articles and predict which color the spouse would choose. A discrepancy score between perceived and actual choices was calculated and compared with scores on the Nye-MacDougall Martial Adjustment Scale. The correlation coefficient between the discrepancy score and ego's marital adjustment was -.27 for the sample as a whole, -.33 for husbands, and -.21 for wives. The correlation between the discrepancy score and mate's marital adjustment was -.17 for the whole sample, -.10 for husbands, and -.23 for wives.