We identified all days on which wives reported at least moderate anxiety (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale). We then examined the frequency, across all these days, of moderate to high (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale) ratings on follow-up questions concerning the husbands’ influence on the wives’ anxiety that day. Wives reported at least moderate anxiety on an average of 10 of 14 days (range = 6–14). On 60.5% of these occasions, wives perceived their husbands as having at least some (ratings of 2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale) influence on their anxiety that day. On 44.4% of these days, husbands were perceived as improving the wife’s anxiety; on 17.4% of days, husbands were perceived as making the wife’s anxiety worse; and on 38.4% of days, husbands were perceived as neither making the anxiety better nor worse. A one-way chi-square test revealed significant differences in the proportions of each type of rating (i.e., anxiety made better, worse or neither) represented across all high-anxiety days, χ2(2, N = 66) = 36.69, p < .05.
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