There are four strategies spouses may attempt to employ in cases of conflict: authority, control, influence, and manipulation. Rates of marital dissolution are a function of the relative equality between spouses in terms of the types of conflict-resolution strategies they are able to employ. (Author)

Data from a study of female retirees and their husbands indicate that the retirement of the wife does not always lead to a redistribution of household tasks, nor do all female retirees experience a full-time household role after retirement. Effects on the marital relationship are often positive. (Author)

Results indicated that both husbands and wives reported relatively high levels of marital adjustment, relatively profeminist attitudes toward women, and moderate levels of career salience. Both husbands and wives ranked family as first and career as second in importance. Women reported more profeminist attitudes than men. (Author)

Discusses the impact of employment insecurity, career mobility, job content and satisfaction, amount and scheduling of work time, geographic mobility, and the wife's role on corporate families. Analysis is limited to male executives and their families. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, May 1980. (Author)

A study of the role of the medical school dean's wife is discussed. Topics include: role orientation, perceived expectations, activities, resources, priorities, and satisfaction. A conceptual model is presented in the form of a three-part typology (active, passive, and nonparticipant) to describe the approaches used by wives. (Author/MLW)

Married couples rated their marital satisfaction and played interpersonal competitive games which revealed the success with which they interacted. Younger husbands who scored more maturely on the Stewart measure of psychosocial maturity belonged to more successful marriages, as did college-educated wives who showed less immaturity and more phallic…

The Marital Status Inventory (MSI) differentiates effectively between couples seeking marital counseling and couples seeking help with parent-child problems. For all cases, MSI scores were found to relate significantly to husbands' and wives' marital satisfaction in the areas of companionship and sex. (Author)

Focusing on dual-earner families, this study found that most working wives hold full-time jobs, are younger on average, better educated, and less likely to have preschool children than are wives who are not employed. An annotated bibliography on dual-career families is appended. (LRA)

Explored the nature of informal support given to older persons, depending upon gender and marital status. Random samples of 488 residents of retirement communities were interviewed. Data indicated the married had more primary relations than the nonmarried; married women had the most and spouseless men the fewest. (Author)

Boston-area families described the ambivalence of male responses to pressures of increased participation in homemaking. Because of different social support networks, men obtain little support and help in performing housework. Men perceiving paid employment as their primary contribution hesitate to acknowledge responsibility for homemaking…

A study of men with multiple sclerosis and their families revealed varied behavioral reactions. Utilizing role theory perspectives, reactions are reported and causes for the differing adjustment styles, especially those that came from the family, are discussed. Upon understanding these family determinants, suggestions were made for family…

Investigated the generally neglected effects of the cotrainer relationship in studies of the outcome of couples communication training. Male-female cotrainer pairs modeled verbal dominance patterns similar or dissimilar to those of client couples. Changes in couples' speaking patterns after a two-hour workshop mirrored their trainers' models.…

Explores the relationship between wife's employment, sex-role traditionalism, and reported division of household tasks and decisions. Findings suggest that despite differences among women in sex-role traditionalism and employment status, most women say that they and their spouses divide tasks in a traditional sex-role fashion. (Author)

Over the time period from 30 to 60 days, spouses increased their tendency to reciprocate both irritating and rewarding behaviors. Implications for identifying couple risk factors and initiating early family intervention are discussed. (Author/NRB)

Adults living with unrelated adults of the opposite sex are contrasted with married couples living together. Couples living together without marriage are most likely to be residing in large metropolitan areas, and are characterized by relatively low income levels and high unemployment. The increase in adults living with an unrelated person of the…