Young Adults' Attitudes toward Multiple Role Planning: The Influence of Gender, Career Traditionality, and Marriage Plans

Peake, Amy; Harris, Karen L.

doi:10.1006/jvbe.2001.1840

Cited by 53 publications

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“…Likewise, Kerpelman and Schvaneveldt (1999) found that both men and women tend to place a high importance on being married as a future identity and tended to value it equally. Peake and Harris (2002) noted that many young people are actively planning for balancing marriage, career, and other tasks before such transitions occur.…”

Section: Marital Centralitymentioning

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Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults

Willoughby

Hall

Goff

2014

The Journal of Psychology

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Marriage, once a gateway to adulthood, is no longer as widely considered a requirement for achieving adult status. With declining marriage rates and delayed marital transitions, some have wondered whether current young adults have rejected the traditional notion of marriage. Utilizing a sample of 571 young adults, the present study explored how marital centrality (the expected importance to be placed on the marital role relative to other adult roles) functioned as a unique and previously unexplored marital belief among young adults. Results suggested that marriage remains an important role for many young adults. On average, young adults expected that marriage would be more important to their life than parenting, careers, or leisure activities. Marital centrality profiles were found to significantly differ based on both gender and religiosity. Marital centrality was also associated with various outcomes including binge-drinking and sexual activity. Specifically, the more central marriage was expected to be, the less young adults engaged in risk-taking or sexual behaviors.

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Section: Marital Centralitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults

Willoughby

Hall

Goff

2014

The Journal of Psychology

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“…Proponents of rational action perspectives (e.g., Peake and Harris 2002) would predict that gender role attitudes precede career and family choices. On the other hand, proponents of cognitive reinterpretation perspectives (e.g., Kroska 1997) would predict that people adjust their gender role attitudes to accommodate changing family and employment circumstances.…”

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Gender Role Attitudes and Careers: A Longitudinal Study

2007

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Data from the Monitoring the Future Study were used to examine the impact of early gender role attitudes on later career outcomes for women and men. We also examined the impact of marriage, children, and labor market outcomes on changes in gender role attitudes. Women's early gender role attitudes predicted their later work hours and earnings. Women's work hours predicted their later gender egalitarianism. Children were negatively associated with later gender egalitarianism for both women and men. Findings indicated that gender role attitudes influence subsequent behavior, but they may also be adjusted to accommodate to situational constraints.

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“…Yet when asked whether they would choose marriage or career if they could only pick one, women college students are more likely than men to choose marriage (38% vs. 18%), and more women than men say they would be willing to make sacrifices, such as moving to a new city, in order to advance a future spouse's career (Novack & Novack, 1996). Young women also place greater importance than do young men on their future parental identity (Kerpelman & Schvaneveldt, 1999), are more likely to consider the possibility of an extended work interruption to manage future family concerns (Peake & Harris, 2002), and expect to be the parent who will stay at home with a newborn infant (Novack & Novack, 1996).…”

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I Can't Wait to Get Married: Gender Differences in Drive to Marry

2005

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In this study we examined a new construct-the Drive to Marry (DTM). Young single men and women (149 men and 246 women) rated their desire to get married and completed measures of their valuing of marital, parental, and occupational roles; concern about others' views of them; and feminist attitudes. We found that women had a higher DTM than did men. In both genders, DTM was predicted by the value of parental role and by concern about others' views of them. In women, DTM was also predicted by traditional attitudes toward gender roles, and there was a trend for women who valued the occupational role to have a lower DTM. Conservative women, women who valued the parental role, and women with a higher DTM were also more likely to want to use the title "Mrs." and to adopt their husband's surname.

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Young Adults' Attitudes toward Multiple Role Planning: The Influence of Gender, Career Traditionality, and Marriage Plans

Cited by 53 publications

References 22 publications

Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults

Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults

Gender Role Attitudes and Careers: A Longitudinal Study

I Can't Wait to Get Married: Gender Differences in Drive to Marry

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