Examined how control over resources, social interaction with children, gender, health, age, employment status, and marital status influence decision-making power of older Filipino adults (n=1,321). Subjects who were younger, employed, well educated, and who owned their homes, provided economic transfer to children and were in more frequent contact…

The dependence of married women upon men for their achievement of social status is examined. Results indicate that both husbands and wives appear to pay rather little attention to the attainments of wives when evaluating their own social status. However, a status-sharing model is not totally ruled out. (Author)

Used data from National Survey of Families and Households to investigate effects of individual characteristics, parental background, and childhood living arrangements on adults' attitudes toward marriage, divorce, and nonmarital childbearing. Strongest predictors were age, sex, and marital status, with older persons, men, and married persons…

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)

Parallel analyses of effects of wife's social origin and educational attainment on husband's occupational attainment are presented for the two countries. The effects are very limited in the United States, but quite strong in Britain. Findings are discussed in light of expected differences in stratification systems of the two countries. (Author)

Data from six national surveys are combined and analyzed to determine how strongly occupational attainments affect the status perceptions of working wives. The results indicate that the effects are limited to women married to men with middle-class jobs. (Author)

Results of studying married couples spanning a wide range of income and prestige levels cast doubt upon the generalization that high levels of dollars and prestige earned in the occupational marketplace are readily transformed into reciprocal exchanges of instrumental and expressive rewards and role performances in the marital dyad. (Author/BEF)

Normative resource theory and relationships between marital decision-making and marital satisfaction were tested in a study of 1370 Austrian women. Data indicate social status differences, but not the spouses' relative social status influence the spouses' relative participation in marital decisions. (Author)

Examined gender differences in stresses associated with two-income marriages and impact of stresses on spouses' psychological well-being in national sample of employed women and husbands. Found the effect for husband's attitude for psychological well-being was mediated by individual's social status. (Author/NB)

Used data from over 2,000 respondents in National Survey of Families and Households to examine sociodemographic differentials in stated willingness of individuals to marry persons with various social, economic, and demographic characteristics. Men placed higher value on physical attractiveness and youth; women placed value on earnings and…

Using a national sample of 249 employed couples, effects of own and spouse's education, occupational status, and income are assessed on three dimensions of psychological functioning: ideational flexibility, self-directedness of orientation, and distress. Results for each dimension of psychological functioning are given. (Author/BL)

This study, based on a survey of Milwaukee area adults, assigns the occupation of housewife a NORC prestige score of 70, one in the middle prestige range. Men and older raters evaluate it higher; working women and younger raters evaluate it lower. Housewife's social standing varies according to husband's occupation. (Author)

Challenges the conventional notion that the offspring of ethnic intermarriage are socially marginal using a study of children of Ashkenazi-Oriental couples in Israel. Results showed most differences were explained by academic achievement and father's education. Youth-movement participation had an independent discriminant power. (JAC)

Examined the effects of maternal employment on parent-youth similarity using a sample of 647 father-mother-youth triads. Found maternal employment had few impacts on the father's influence except for fathers having slightly greater influence in expressive areas. Maternal employment appeared to lower the influence of the mother. (Author)

This paper attempts to integrate empirical research results pertaining to benefits parents may derive from their children in enhancing or maintaining their social status. A model of a two-way flow of such help throughout the family cycle is offered and special attention is given to the differences between socioeconomic groups. (Author)