ERIC ED268450: Marital Influence Levels and Psychological pdf

ERIC ED268450: Marital Influence Levels and Psychological

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Previous research has shown that among married couples, housewives experience the highest levels of psychological distress, employed husbands the least, and employed wives experience levels of stress somewhere in between. This study examines whether employed wives’ symptomatology can be explained by the extent of their influence within the marriage relative to that of their husbands. Questionnaires which independently assessed husband’s and wife’s stresses were completed by 815 dual career couples. Questions measured educational and employment demographics, family and career satisfaction, allocation of domestic and decision making responsibilities, mental health symptomatology, and achievement concerns. Eighty-four percent of the subjects reported equal or almost equal relationships. For the most part, the more egalitarian the marriage, the greater was the wife’s satisfaction with the marriage and the lower was her symptomatology. The exception to this was the finding that the greater the husband’s responsibility for household tasks, the higher the level of the wife’s symptomatology.

Mothers tended to have less egalitarian marriages than wives without children. (ABL

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1985-04
• Year: 1985
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Dual Career Family, Employed Women, Individual Power, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage, Mothers, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Spouses, Stress Variables

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