AN EMPIRICAL COUPLE TYPOLOGY BASED ON DIFFERENTIATION

Both spouses of 100 married, heterosexual couples completed the Person al Authority in the Family System Questionnaire (PAFS-Q). A cluster an alysis of the couples' scores on the four intimacy and fusion scales o f the PAFS-Q produced four clusters that were meaningfully distinct in the patterns of differentiation of the wives and husbands. Couples co mprising these clusters are described in terms of intergenerational th eories of family interaction.