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Peer reviewedGaesser, David L.; Whitbourne, Susan Krauss – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
Investigated the relationship between work-identity and satisfaction and marital adjustment in 40 married male blue-collar workers, ages 25 to 41 years. Satisfaction with extrinsic work factors related to marital adjustment, while satisfaction with intrinsic work factors negatively related to secondary role salience. Age negatively related to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blue Collar Occupations, Employment, Identification (Psychology)
Gaesser, David L.; Whitbourne, Susan Krauss – 1983
The expansion theory, which maintains that an individual has unlimited energy to expend in work or marital involvement, and the drain theory, which maintains that an individual's energy for work can be depleted by overcommitment to family, compete with each other in explaining the effect of worklife on the adult male's family relationships. To…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Blue Collar Occupations, Difficulty Level
