Marital Complaints in Husband-Working and Husband-Retired Couples

Ekerdt, David J.; Vinick, Barbara H.

doi:10.1177/0164027591133005

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“…This suggests that retirement is perceived by both husband and wife as not being a negative transition for couples. This is consistent with previous research on retirement and marital satisfaction (Ekerdt & Vinick, 1991;Kulik, 2001;Miller, Peterson, & Bengtson, 1998;Moen, Kim, & Hofmeister, 2001), which generally found few negative effects of retirement on marital quality.…”

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Difficulties, Disagreements, and Disappointments in Late-Life Marriages

Henry

Miller

Giarrusso

2005

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Although research has examined marital satisfaction in later life, little is known about the specific relationship challenges that older couples experience. Thus, the objective of the study was to explore the challenges older couples face. Data came from the USC Longitudinal Study of Generations. Qualitative analysis was conducted on 105 older couples, with an average age of 69, who responded in 1997 to an open-ended question about difficulties, disagreements, and disappointments in their marriage. Ten themes emerged from the data. In order of frequency, they were leisure activities, intimacy, finances, no problems, personality, intergenerational relations, household concerns, personal habits, health issues, and work/retirement. Comparisons in responses were made for age, gender, marital quality, length of marriage, and health. In addition, the dyadic data were examined for patterns within the relationship.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Difficulties, Disagreements, and Disappointments in Late-Life Marriages

Henry

Miller

Giarrusso

2005

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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“…Wives, who generally have lower status than husbands (Steil 1997), express more complaints (Amato and Rogers 1997;Ekerdt and Vinick 1991;Hagestad and Smyer 1982). Because gender often covaries with status in marriage relationships, these findings are only suggestive.…”

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Status and the Gender Stereotyped Personality Traits: Toward an Integration

Gerber

2008

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This paper integrates research findings on status and the gender stereotyped personality traits and examines the extent to which women's lower status than men can account for two components of gender stereotyping in the United States: the belief that women and men have different personality traits and the differences in men's and women's perceptions of their own personality traits. In addition, it examines the extent to which status affects the evaluations associated with both genders' self-perceived traits. Personality traits include the instrumental-assertive and expressive attributes that have been the focus of most theory and research, in addition to the instrumental-dominating, complaining, submissive, and bipolar attributes. Formulations involving the link with status are presented for each of these personality attributes.

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“…Consistent with this logic, Larson and Holman (1994) noted that much recent research has shifted from the study of static, sociocultural, or familyof-origin background factors (e.g., marital characteristics) to the investigation of interactional dynamics of couples (e.g., marital interaction processes). In addition, studies of both marital characteristics and marital interaction processes suggest the importance of gender as a mediating or moderating variable (Ekerdt & Vinick, 1991;Keith & Wacker, 1990), as well as marital longevity (Keith & Wacker, 1990;Mackey & O'Brien, 1995).…”

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The Relationship Between Marital Characteristics, Marital Interaction Processes, and Marital Satisfaction

Rosen-Grandon

Myers

Hattie

2004

Jour of Counseling & Develop

128

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Structural Equation Modeling techniques were used to clarify the relationship between marital characteristics, marital processes, and the dependent variable—marital satisfaction—in a sample of 201 participants who were in 1st marriages. The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; G. B. Spanier, 1976) and the Enriching and Nurturing Relationship Issues, Communication and Happiness Inventory (ENRICH; D. H. Olson, D. G. Fournier, & J. M. Druckman, 1987) provided scales to measure marital interaction processes and marital satisfaction. A new instrument, the Characteristics of Marriage Inventory (CHARISMA; J. R. Rosen‐Grandon & J. E. Myers, 2001), was developed using factor analysis to determine which marital characteristics were statistically significant. Structural equation modeling identified a path model wherein 6 marital interaction processes had a statistically significant influence on marital satisfaction when mediated by 3 latent factors of marital characteristics (love, loyalty, and shared values) and 2 moderating variables (length of marriage and gender of participant).

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Marital Complaints in Husband-Working and Husband-Retired Couples

Cited by 26 publications

References 18 publications

Difficulties, Disagreements, and Disappointments in Late-Life Marriages

Difficulties, Disagreements, and Disappointments in Late-Life Marriages

Status and the Gender Stereotyped Personality Traits: Toward an Integration

The Relationship Between Marital Characteristics, Marital Interaction Processes, and Marital Satisfaction

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