Ideology, Power, and Equity: Testing Competing Explanations for the Perception of Fairness in Household Labor

DeMaris, Alfred; Longmore, Monica A.

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“…Internal consistency was reduced by the nature of the first three items, as would be expected under equity principles. That is, being underbenefited in, say, doing housework, shouldn’t be strongly correlated with being underbenefited in working for pay or spending money, since couples tend to make offsetting contributions in order to keep the relationship equitable (DeMaris, 2007; DeMaris & Longmore, 1996). The correlation between the Hatfield and Sprecher items, on the other hand, is .55 for women and .47 for men.…”

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Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity

DeMaris

Mahoney

Pargäment

2010

Journal of Family Issues

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Theory suggests that relationship inequity will be associated with less marital and personal distress among the more religious, and that this interaction effect will be stronger for women than men. Data are from 178 married couples experiencing the third trimester of pregnancy of their first biological child. Five outcome variables were assessed for each spouse: marital satisfaction, love, marital conflict, depression, and anxiety. Consistent with equity theory, perceived relative advantage was related in a non-monotonic fashion to all outcomes, with increasing advantage predicting better outcomes up to the equity point, but worse outcomes afterwards. Sanctification of marriage appeared to be a more important moderator of inequity effects than general religiousness. In particular, relative advantage had weaker effects among higher sanctifiers. The influence of relative advantage was also conditioned by gender. Wives’ psychological well-being appeared to be more adversely affected than men’s due to considering oneself overbenefited in the relationship. Moreover, the interaction between sanctification and relative advantage was somewhat stronger for wives.

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“…Each ratio was of the form: husband’s contribution/wife’s contribution. Logged contribution ratios have been used in previous studies to tap relative objective contributions in marriage (DeMaris, 2007; DeMaris & Longmore, 1996). Educational attainment ranged from “less than 7 years” (1) to “graduate/professional degree” (7).…”

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Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity

DeMaris

Mahoney

Pargäment

2010

Journal of Family Issues

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“…If necessary, one-half was added to the numerator and denominator when creating the ratio to prevent undefined logs. This approach has been used in previous work to measure husband’s relative contributions in marriage (e.g., DeMaris, 2007; DeMaris & Longmore, 1996). The log of the ratio of husband’s to wife’s weekly hours spent in paid labor was the paid labor ratio .…”

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“…Father’s contributions to housework and childcare during the transition to parenthood should serve to reduce the amount of parenting stress experienced by mothers. Women’s sense of the fairness of the household division of labor has been found to be elevated when fathers both take responsibility for, and do, a larger share of the childcare tasks (DeMaris & Longmore, 1996; Hochschild, 1989). His participation relieves her of some of the burden of childcare.…”

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Fathers' Contributions to Housework and Childcare and Parental Aggravation Among First-Time Parents

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Mahoney²,

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2013

Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Me

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This study investigated the associations between fathers’ contributions to housework and childcare and both spouses’ parenting aggravation. It was hypothesized that greater father contributions to domestic labor would be associated with more paternal aggravation but less maternal aggravation. Data are from a four-wave study of 178 married couples undergoing the transition to first parenthood. Dyadic growth-curve models revealed gender differences in aggravation trajectories over the first year of the child’s life. Fathers were higher in initial aggravation, but mothers’ aggravation grew at a faster rate over time. The primary hypothesis was only partially supported. Fathers’ contributions to childcare were associated with significantly lower maternal aggravation levels, but only among more religious mothers. Child fussiness and unpredictability were consistently significant predictors of higher aggravation for both parents. Depressive symptomatology was positively related to aggravation for fathers, whereas love for the spouse was associated with lower aggravation for mothers, controlling for other factors.

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“…We examined data from the fourth interview of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) in which men and women, ages 18-24, (n=422) were currently dating. We build on prior studies on marital and cohabiting (e.g., Coyne, Thompson, & Palmer, 2002; DeMaris & Longmore, 1996; Whiffen & MacDonald, 2001; Whisman, 2001; Whisman & Uebelacker, 2009), as well as dating dynamics (e.g., Davila, Steinberg, Kachadourian, Cobb, & Fincham, 2004; Joyner & Udry, 2000; Mak & Marshall, 2004; Quatman, Sampson, Robinson, & Watson, 2001), by exploring relationship qualities during emerging adulthood that likely influenced depressive symptoms. Other studies have not empirically evaluated the role of mattering in tandem with specific relationship qualities, but this may be particularly important in the early adult years as intimacy becomes central to identity formation and well-being.…”

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Strained Dating Relationships: A Sense of Mattering and Emerging Adults? Depressive Symptoms

Nash¹,

Longmore²,

Manning³

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J Depress Anxiety

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Dating relationships become increasingly important as individuals transition into young adulthood. Such relationships often involve positive and negative interactions, which may have implications for psychological well-being. We analyzed data from the fourth interview of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS), when respondents were ages 18-24, to assess the influence of relationship dynamics on depressive symptoms. Using ordinary least squares regression models, among individuals currently dating (n=422), we first examined the influence of a sense of mattering as well as strained dynamics of dating relationships (e.g., communication awkwardness, conflict, sexual non-exclusivity and influence attempts) as correlates of depressive symptoms. Next, we tested whether these correlates differed for male and female daters. We found that a sense of mattering, communication awkwardness, conflict, sexual non-exclusivity and influence attempts were significant correlates of depressive symptoms. However, gender interactions were not significant suggesting that these same correlates were associated with depressive symptoms in a similar manner for both men and women in dating relationships. We also found that a sense of mattering mediated the relationship between conflict and depressive symptoms, and partially mediated the relationship between communication awkwardness, partner sexually non-exclusivity and partner influence dynamics and depressive symptoms. This suggested that feeling that one matters is important in dating relationships and may reduce the risk of depressive symptoms.

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Ideology, Power, and Equity: Testing Competing Explanations for the Perception of Fairness in Household Labor

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Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity

Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity

Fathers' Contributions to Housework and Childcare and Parental Aggravation Among First-Time Parents

Strained Dating Relationships: A Sense of Mattering and Emerging Adults? Depressive Symptoms

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