本文以「家庭實權「這一總括性指標作為測量婚姻權力的依變項，在分析框架中將「持家貢獻」拓展為資源變項，?引入「婚姻依賴」和性別文化界範等自變量，通過對中國大陸經濟、文化發展水平不同的4地區入戶訪問所獲得的6033個已婚男女樣本資料發現，城市夫妻權力模式的同質性較強，雙方共同決定家庭事務的比重達60%，妻子擁有實權的也明顯多於丈夫；農村丈夫為一家之主的仍在半數以上，妻子有家庭實權的僅為丈夫的十分之一，且西部欠發達農村家庭遵循夫權規則的概率明顯高於於沿海發達地區的農村家庭。
邏輯迴歸分析的結果顯示，1.丈夫相對資源優越的家庭更易接受規權模式；2.持家貢獻大的一方、在家庭生活中較少依賴對方者往往有更多資本以影響家庭決策；3.文化背景越接近現代化、社會階層越高的已婚者有更大以概率認同夫妻平權甚至妻權；4.傳統文化對男子的性別態度和權威認同的潛在影響也具有統計顯著性。本文認為，家庭角色的成功扮演和辛勤付出將贏得婚姻權力的報償，而農村已婚男子的社會流動機會和發展資源多於女性，加上農村的家庭經營、蓋房等主要經濟活動依然是男子關注和作主的領域，因此，農村女性的價值更多地體現在承擔繁重、瑣碎的家務上，而城市妻子則顯示了自己的持家和經濟管理能力。

Using the real family power as a global measure of marriage power, the present paper develops an analytic framework to estimate the effects of spousal individual resources, degree of marriage reliance, and sexual cultural norms. The results from the descriptive analysis show that there is a more significant similarity in the family power patterns between spouses in the urban areas. In about 60% of urban families, couples share their decision-making power for domestic matters and more wives than husbands act as decision makers in the remainder families. In the rural China, however, more than half of the families are still husband dominated. The number of wives who are the only family decision-markers is only 10 percent of husbands'. Moreover, martial power structure is less similar in the rural areas.
Based on the data from a sampling survey conducted in four areas with different socioeconomic development levels, the logistic regression analysis found a strong support for the following hypotheses. 1)Male dominant power structure is more likely adopted in the families with husbands having more resources. 2)The stronger ability of home making, more contribution to the family, and less reliance on spouse, the more power you have in the process of family decision making. 3)The higher cultural background and social status, the greater possibility to accept equalitarian even female dominant marriage power structure. 4)The traditional culture has a significant effect upon husbands' attitudes toward sex and power relationships. The present article recognized that strong family commitment and successful performance of family roles would be rewarded with more marriage powers. However, rural and urban wives take different approaches to display their values in the urban and rural areas. While the values of rural wives are mainly indicated by more direct participation in heavy and trivial domestic works, urban wives show more values in their management ability of family economy as well as other domestic matters.