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Happy Spouses, Happy Parents? Family Relationships Among Finnish and Dutch Dual Earners
Author(s) -
Malinen Kaisa,
Kinnunen Ulla,
Tolvanen Asko,
Rönkä Anna,
WierdaBoer Hilde,
Gerris Jan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00700.x
Subject(s) - psychology , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , dual (grammatical number) , spillover effect , social psychology , quality (philosophy) , mathematics , art , statistics , literature , economics , microeconomics , philosophy , epistemology
In this study links between spousal and parent‐child relationships among Finnish (n = 157 couples) and Dutch (n = 276 couples) dual earners with young children were examined using paired questionnaire data. Variable‐oriented analyses (structural equation modeling with a multigroup procedure) supported the spillover hypothesis, as higher levels of satisfaction in the spousal relationship were related to higher quality in the parent‐child relationship and lower parental role restrictions. These connections did not differ by gender or country. With family typological analyses (mixture modeling), 4 family types were identified: families with satisfying relationships (73.4% of the families), families with unsatisfying parent‐child relationships (13.4%), and families with either dissatisfied men (6.0%) or dissatisfied women (7.2%).