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Kamp Dush, Claire M.; Taylor, Miles G. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Group Membership, Conflict, Marriage
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Merrifield, Kami A.; Gamble, Wendy C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined associations among marital quality, coparenting, and parenting self-efficacy in parents of young children. Of special interest were possible spillover and stress-buffering effects of the marital and coparenting relationships. The authors sampled 175 married and cohabiting couples. Participants were recruited via an online…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Child Rearing, Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Carlson, Daniel L.; Knoester, Chris – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, this study explores how single-parent, stepparent, and two-parent biological family structures may affect the transmission of gender ideology from parents to their adult children. Results indicate that biological parents' ideologies are strong predictors of their children's…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Daughters, Ideology, Parent Child Relationship
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Rozario, Philip A.; Chadiha, Letha A.; Proctor, Enola K.; Morrow-Howell, Nancy – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
This study--on 100 African American wife and 258 daughter primary caregivers--uses a contextual approach in its examination of the relationship between social resources and caregiver depressive symptoms. At the bivariate level, significant differences in certain key characteristics of primary caregivers and care receivers underscore the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Spouses, Daughters, Caregivers
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Abbey, Antonia; And Others – Journal of Family Issues, 1994
Longitudinally examined effects of infertility on marital and global life quality with 174 infertile couples and 74 fertile couples. By third interview, 42% of infertile couples and 36% of fertile couples were parents. Psychosocial predictors of life quality were highly similar for members of infertile and fertile couples and for couples with and…
Descriptors: Childlessness, Marital Satisfaction, Parents, Predictor Variables
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Fischer, Tamar F. C.; de Graaf, Paul M.; Kalmijn, Matthijs – Journal of Family Issues, 2005
This study presents descriptive and explanatory analyses of contact between former spouses, using data on 1,791 previously married men and women in the Netherlands. The authors employ a typology of relationships between former spouses, differentiating between friendly contact, antagonistic contact, and no contact. Ten years after divorce, still…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spouses, Divorce, Interaction
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Nomaguchi, Kei M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
Recent theoretical work suggests that the increase in women's sense of entitlement to leisure has become a key to understanding delay in childbearing in industrialized countries. Using data from the Japanese Panel Study of Consumer Life, the author examines the relationship between leisure time and childbearing among Japanese married women in a…
Descriptors: Employment, Mothers, Leisure Time, Foreign Countries
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Kroska, Amy – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
Using a sample of 101 heterosexual, co-residential couples, the author evaluates four housework theories: gender ideology, relative resources, time availability, and doing gender. Unlike some tests of these theories, the author operationalizes gender ideology as an identity, and the author tests the models on the traditionally feminine chores as…
Descriptors: Spouses, Ideology, Housework, Gender Differences
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Chesley, Noelle – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This study analyzes a couple-level ("N" = 581), longitudinal data set of employees to provide evidence about technology use over time, the factors that predict use, and the potential for a spouse to influence an individual's use. Although longitudinal usage patterns suggest a trend toward adoption and use of e-mail, the Internet, cell phones, and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Technological Advancement, Employment, Correlation
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Jansen, Miranda; Liefbroer, Aart C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
In this article, the authors examine effects of partners' attitudes on the timing of the birth of a first child, the division of domestic labor, the division of child care, and the division of paid labor of couples. They use data from the Panel Study of Social Integration in the Netherlands, which includes independent measures of both partners'…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Birth, Spouses, Foreign Countries
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Roxburgh, Susan – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
In this article, I examine the distribution of time pressure associated with the roles of marital partner and parent using data from a telephone survey. Results of an analysis of open-ended responses indicate that less than a quarter of respondents are satisfied with the time they spend with their children and spouses. Women are more likely to…
Descriptors: Spouses, Females, Telephone Surveys, Males