This study tests the common assertion that women, especially upper-middle-class housewives, vicariously experience their husbands' success. Findings for 121 mostly upper-middle-class housewives disprove this assertion. Husband's success does positively affect a housewife's self-esteem, but only indirectly, through its effect on perceived marital…

Spousal consensus on 12 different topics is examined. Amount and direction of the influence of these factors (structure, cohesion and stress) thought to account for consensus are evaluated. Interviews with 321 urban couples provided the data for analysis. (Author)

Relationships between family size, intelligence, and expected education were examined. The zero-order correlations were negative as expected. However, after other relevant variables were controlled, family size had a negligible association with intelligence and expected education. (Author)

Fifty-nine married women with exactly two children were questioned about their intentions to have a third child. Findings were contrasted with previous disappointing results in studies of the psychological correlates of fertility, and practical implications of the findings for fertility change programs were discussed. (Author)

This study investigates the relative influences of parents, peers, and partners on the contraceptive use of college men and women. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a nonprobability, purposive sample of 434 never-married, sexually active males and females between the ages of 17 and 22 years. (Author)

By comparing changes in divorce rates of reform states with no-reform states, this study indicates that law changes have had little effect on increases in incidence of divorce in most states. Exceptions, such as California and Florida, should be tested with rival hypotheses pertinent to their special socioeconomic characteristics. (Author)

Using a sample of 686 married Irish women in Cork City the Bott hypothesis was tested, and the results of a multivariate regression analysis revealed that neither network connectedness nor the strength of the respondent's emotional ties to the network had any explanatory power. (Author)

An examination of the economic, service, social and emotional support systems of Chicago area widows indicates an infrequency of appearance of the extended kin. Children and, in the case of younger widows, parents, are frequent contributors to these support systems. (Author)

This paper examines fertility patterns of women in two different types of marital unions (monogamous and polygynous) in 16 sample villages of eastern Nigeria. Results show polygyny tends to reduce fertility through the intermediary of a comparatively wider age differential between the polygynists and their wives. (Author)

This study utilized an axiomatic approach to develop a middle-range theory of premarital sexual intercourse. Using an unanalyzed data base of 336 never-married coeds in a southern state college and in a southern medical complex, 15 propositions were either statistically significant or in the stated direction. (Author)

Hypotheses regarding the relationship between "enforced" marriage and church affiliation, degree of urbanization and level of education are tested with data from the Netherlands pertaining to the periods 1959-1961 and 1969-1971. Differences between the first and the second time period are attributed to sexual permissiveness during the last decade.…

Survey data obtained from 893 very low-income elderly is presented utilizing a poverty, low-income dichotomy. The relationships between income level, sex and marital status are explored for a variety of items related to morale and life satisfaction. (Author)

Historically, adherents of Mormonism have had higher than average rates of childbearing. Data cited in this study support the hypothesis that there is something about Mormonism which influences childbearing, and this effect cannot be accounted for by social and economic characteristics. (Author)

This study was designed to ascertain whether or not working wives derive status benefits from their own occupational attainments. Findings suggest that they do. (Author)

Reduction in fertility of remarried women relative to once married women was investigated. When marital history of husband was controlled, it became evident that a greater reduction of fertility was observed among women with previously married husbands than among remarried women whose husbands had not been previously married. (Author)