Husbands' characteristics, however, should be related to authoritarianism in specific ways. Although spouses were not surveyed, the women rated their husbands on several traits that included the following four domains: lovingness, masculinity, stability, and wisdom. Given past research showing that collegeaged authoritarian women preferred dating masculine men, we hypothesized a positive relationship between authoritarianism and masculine husbands. However, ther should be a positive relationship between generativity and husbands as loving (which reflects a high level of intimacy) and wise (characteristic of the Erikson stage of integrity).
しかしながら、夫の特徴は、具体的な方法によって権威主義に関連づけられるべきものです。配偶者（妻）を調査したわけではないが、女性達は自分の夫を、愛情深さ、男らしさ、安定性、分別といった4つの領域を含むいくつかのに評価します。年頃の権威主義的な女性は、男らしい男性と付き合うことを好むということを、過去の調査が示していることを考慮し、権威主義と男らしい夫との間の正の相関関係を仮定しました。
