The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among the resources, financial management behavior and economic welbeing of wives. The data were collected from 300 participants by questionnaire. The subjects of this survey were 250 wives living in the Pusan and Kyungnam regions. The data were collected by personal interviews and self-administered questionnaires and analyzed by frequencies, correlation analysis, one way Anova, Duncan test, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The major findings of this study were as follows: (1) the regression analysis found that financial management behavior was an important variable affecting the economic wellbeing of wives : and (2) there are statistically significant differences in the levels of financial management behavior and economic satisfaction between households of different socioeconomic levels. Theses results imply that a financial management program focusing on the ways to implement financial behavior effectively should be developed.