(1) Husbands and wives as groups are highly congruent in the perception of their own influence in decision-making. This is a rather unique finding when compared to other decision-making studies which have found a high amount of incongruence in spousal perception of their own influence patterns. The researcher postulates, in part, that this results from a tighter methodology for measuring spousal influence in this study as compared to others.
(2) Automobiles, family savings, and life insurance decisions are ones which are perceived by both spouses to be more husband-dominant; furniture, grocery, and most general family decisions related to money management are perceived to be more wife-dominant; and major appliances and vacation decisions are perceived to be areas in which husbands and wives share decision-making more equally.
(3) In general, husbands more than wives perceived their children to be more influential in family decision-making.
(4) In most product categories, both spouses did not perceive children to exert a high amount of influence in decision-making. Children were perceived to exert most influence in vacation decisions and least influence in major appliance decisions.