Gender. The results in Table 4 indicate that women were more likely
than men to report infidelity, mental or physical abuse, and alcohol or drug
use as reasons for divorce. Further inspection of the data (not shown) indicated
that women who reported these causes were more likely to refer to
their former husbands’ behavior than their own. Table 4 also shows that
women were significantly less likely than men to report communication
problems or to claim that they did not know what caused the divorce. Although
the former finding appears to contradict the notion thatwomen are
more concerned with communication in marriage, the latter finding is
consistent with research showing that men have a more difficult time articulating
relationship problems.