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| Marital equality and the quality of long-term marriage in later life | | Author(s) | Liat Kulik |
| Journal title | Ageing & Society, vol 22, part 4, July 2002 |
| Pages | pp 459-482 |
| Keywords | Personal relationships ; Married couples ; Sexual equality ; Quality of life ; Social roles ; Social surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Husband-wife equality has been examined on the basis of marital power relations and the division of roles in three areas: in-home tasks, financial management and social life. Research with a sample of 116 retired Israeli couples examined the relationship between husband-wife equality in late adulthood and two dimensions of marital equality: burn-out, and satisfaction with marriage. Equity theory provided the conceptual framework for the hypothesis that equality in various aspects of marriage enhances marital quality. Negative correlations were found between equality in family roles and burn-out in both husbands and wives. Surprisingly, equality in the performance of in-home roles correlated positively with burn-out among husbands. Moreover, equality in power relations correlated positively with marital satisfaction in wives. An interaction was also found for wives' perceptions of equality in power relations and their husbands' level of burn-out. State of health correlated negatively with burn-out for both partners. Husbands' religiosity explained a substantial percentage of the variance in their level of burn-out and marital satisfaction. On the whole, wives reported a higher level of burn-out and a lower level of marital satisfaction than did their husbands. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020812210 A |
| Classmark | DS: SM: TM8: F:59: TM5: 3F: 7H6 |
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