Investigates the influence on ego's attitudes toward his familial roles of husband and father and his nonfamilial role of student by the validation of those roles by his significant others. (Author)

As a result of an effective feminist movement and effective technological developments, men are faceing drastic and dramatic changes in their personal and work lives. Consequently, more men, and specifically more older men, are entering psychotherapy than ever before. Men in their 50's are facing problems associated with shifts away from…

Multivariate analysis of survey data from 390 Seattle couples reveals that husbands' work time did not significantly decrease their participation in the housekeeper and therapeutic roles, nor their competence in the housekeeper, therapeutic, sexual, and recreation roles. (Author)

Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)

This investigation compared courtship patterns and early marital adjustment in a sample of 30 white middle class couples, slightly less than half of whom had lived together prior to marriage. Intensive interviews were conducted individually and conjointly with all couples at specified intervals prior to and following marriage. Interviews were…

Both static and dynamic models are developed which hypothesize effects of background characteristics, socioeconomic factors and family life-cycle stages on three dimensions of normative preferences. The most striking result is the failure of the husband's preferences to dominate the wife's. (Author)

The authors present a model which follows the development of a male-female relationship through dating, marriage and divorce. They discuss the factors that cause friction between a husband and wife and offer procedures for coping with such friction. (SE)

This research examines adolescents' perceptions of marriage and marital roles, as measured by a variation of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test. Differences in the meanings given by dating and engaged students suggest that courtship may serve as a process of socialization to married roles. Results also reveal that the perceptions of…

The data provided evidence in support of the theoretical point of view that role discrepancies explain a considerable amount of the variation in marital satisfaction. In addition, evidence was found that it is meaningful to take the importance variable into account in understanding the relationship between role discrepancy and marital…

A total of 136 women students: math science majors, counselors in training, and teachers in training were subjects in this study concerned with the relationship between women's career choice and their perception of men's views of the feminine ideal. As predicted, women's perceptions of men's views of the feminine ideal were differentially related…

As part of a continuing study of the differences between couples seeking marital therapy and those seeking sexual dysfunction therapy, this report examines these two clinical populations on the dimension of discrepant views of the marriage. Results suggest overall discrepancy scores may be an important indicator of stress between partners. (Author)

It is hypothesized that a wife's gainful employment will have differential effects on family interaction patterns, depending on the relative availability and the relative effectiveness of family-internal and family-external support. Female employment does not necessarily result in the development of egalitarian role-relations between the spouses.…

Responses by 200 psychologist couples asking them to delinerate problem areas were content analyzed. The larger number of problems cited by subjects were due to the fact that women were willing to place their careers secondary to needs of their families and needs of their husband's careers. (Author)

Prepared for high school students, this course in Home and Family Education focuses upon the attitudes, events and ceremonies, both traditional and contemporary, surrounding engagement and marriage in our society. The course addresses itself to nine behavioral outcomes that should result from the multimedia resources and learning activities…

An exploratory study suggests that legal and medical training can have a negative impact on marriage: role behaviors learned during professional socialization and transferred to the spouse role are not conducive to a satisfying marital relationship, and student and spouse roles compete for time and personal commitment. (MSE)