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Marital happiness: implications for dual career couples
Author(s) -
STALNAKER SYLVIA D.,
ERICKSEN MARY K.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1990.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - happiness , affect (linguistics) , wage , dual (grammatical number) , psychology , social psychology , mythology , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , art , philosophy , literature , theology , communication
Two marital myths, a woman's place is in the home and the husband is the primary wage earner or provider, were investigated in relation to marital happiness. No significant relationships were found between the variables indicating that changing lifestyles and the employment of females outside the home may be resulting in a greater equality between spouses and that women's employment does not affect marital happiness, even though job responsibilities and pressure may at times create conflict between dual career couples.