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The Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale and a shortened version of Marshall's Privacy Preferences Scale were administered to 114 married couples living in the city of Sydney, Australia. Marital satisfaction (male, female and couple satisfaction) was regressed upon individual and couple difference scores in four areas of privacy preferences (solitude, reserve, not neighboring and intimacy). The results indicated that male satisfaction was associated with spouses' low preference for Reserve and couple differences in respect to Solitude and Reserve. Female satisfaction was negatively associated with couple differences in Not Neighboring. Couple satisfaction was positively associated with wives' low preference for Reserve and couple differences in preferences for Solitude.

Tallman (1970) has proposed that the optimum family structure for effective problem solving is one that makes provision for open channels of communication, centralized authority, and consensus regarding members 'perceptions of the family roles and goals relevant to the problem in hand. Support for this proposition is claimed from the findings of studies of communication networks in small ad hoc groups. This generalization appears to be in contradiction to Shaw's (1971) summary of the communication network literature. However, it can be argued that research evidence involving invariant communication networks is not entirely appropriate to the more dynamic structures that emerge from and are influenced by complex family problem-solving processes. A more appropriate basis for Tallman's view lies in studies of achieved centrality of organization when groups are given the opportunity to structure themselves as part of their problem-solving process.