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Marital Quality and Divorce Decisions: How Do Premarital Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing Matter?
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Tach, Laura M.; Halpern-Meekin, Sarah – Family Relations, 2012
This study used the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 3,481) to test whether the association between marital quality and divorce is moderated by premarital cohabitation or nonmarital childbearing status. Prior research identified lower marital quality as a key explanation for why couples who cohabit or have children…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Divorce, Marital Satisfaction
The Relationship of Women's Role Strain to Social Support, Role Satisfaction, and Self Efficacy.
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Erdwins, Carol J.; Buffardi, Louis C.; Casper, Wendy J.; O'Brien, Alison – Family Relations, 2001
Relationship of social support, role satisfaction, and self-efficacy to measures of role strain was explored in married, employed women with preschool aged children. Self efficacy in work and parental role proved to be a significant predictor of work-family conflict and role overload. Organizational support on role conflict was mediated by job…
Descriptors: Careers, Employed Women, Family Work Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Wife Caregivers of Frail Elderly Veterans: Correlates of Caregiver Satisfaction and Caregiver Strain.
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Dorfman, Lorraine T.; And Others – Family Relations, 1996
Investigated correlates of satisfaction and strain in 80 wife caregivers of frail elderly veterans. Support from spouse was the strongest positive predictor of satisfaction with caregiving and the strongest negative predictor of caregiver strain. Self efficacy was the strongest predictor of caregiver life satisfaction. (Author)
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Chronic Illness, Community Services, Disabilities