Wife's Employment and Husband's Stress: A Replication and Refutation.

Booth, Alan

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ERIC Number: EJ173117

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Publication Date: 1977

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Wife's Employment and Husband's Stress: A Replication and Refutation

Booth, Alan

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 39, 4, 645-9, Nov 77

A study which showed that husbands of employed women were in poorer health and less contented with their marriage than men whose spouses were not in the labor force was replicated. Husbands of employed women evidenced no more signs of marital discord and stress than did the spouses of housewives. (Author)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employed Women, Employment, Family Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Males, Marriage, Physical Health, Research Projects, Stress Variables

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