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The Happy Homemaker? Married Women's Well-Being in Cross-National Perspective
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Treas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe – Social Forces, 2011
A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Spouses, Marital Status, Homemakers
Gender Differences in Communication.
Diedrick, Patricia – 1984
Gender differences in spoken and unspoken emotional expression exist and may be related to gender differences in other realms, particularly in self-esteem. This literature review investigated gender differences in communication, particularly as related to emotional expressiveness, detection of emotional responses, and self-disclosures, in relation…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Interpersonal Communication, Marital Satisfaction, Psychological Patterns
Observed Hostility and Dominance as Mediators of the Relationship between Husbands' Gender Role Conflict and Wives' Outcomes
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Breiding, Matthew J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2004
Sixty married couples participated in a study of the effects of husbands' gender role conflict on outcomes for wives. Hypothesized relationships between husbands' gender role conflict and wives' marital adjustment and depressive symptoms were supported. Hostile and dominant behaviors were recorded by outside raters viewing videotaped segments of…
Descriptors: Gender Role, Spouses, Role Conflict, Depression (Psychology)
Stress as a Driver of the Allocation of Housework.
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Pittman, Joe F.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1996
Followed a sample of young, married couples who recorded daily their housework tasks and levels of stress. Results showed that stress inside and outside the home influenced the amount of housework done. Concludes that housework time arises from a dynamic decision-making process sensitive to the social environment. (RJM)
Descriptors: Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Housework
The Myth of Cognitive Consistency: Psychological Theories and Intimate Violence.
Horowitz, Sandra V. – 1981
Several psychological theories are viable when examining the victims of intimate violence, specifically battered women. Although cognitive consistency models view individuals as striving toward balanced cognitive states, battered women can exist with the cognitive inconsistency of being harmed by men who love them. The theory of cognitive arousal…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Battered Women, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes
Family Life and Professional Activity (Based on a Study of Intact Families with Preschool-Age Children)
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Ababkov, V. A.; Perrez, M.; Kaidanovskaia, E. V.; Shiobi, D. – Russian Education and Society, 2005
This article discusses a study that deals with the relationship between family life and professional activity in Russian society. The materials of the present study were provided by 80 parents (40 men and 40 women) representing 40 families in St. Petersburg. Study participants included families with an average level of subsistence, making up the…
Descriptors: Family Life, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children