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| Perceptions of 'impingement' and marital satisfaction among wives of retired husbands | | Author(s) | Suzanne Y Bushfield, Tanya R Fitzpatrick, Barbara H Vinick |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 20, nos 3/4, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 199-214 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Wives ; Husbands ; Retirement ; Married couples ; Life satisfaction ; Attitude ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Replies to open-ended questions in initial pilot interviews with women whose husbands were in the first year of retirement revealed that problems of "impingement" - perceptions of husbands as intruders into their world-as-lived - were cited as the most difficult aspect of husbands' retirement. An impingement index, containing items constructed from these responses was administered to the original panel of 83 women whose husbands were now in the fourth year of retirement, and to a new panel of 61 women whose husbands had been retired for one year. Paired t-tests revealed one significant difference in perceptions of impingement between the two groups of wives, and not in the expected direction. Wives in year 4 were more often bothered by some impingement conditions that wives in year 1, and these were significantly related to self-assessments of marital satisfaction. Results have implications for "adjustment" to life transitions, including situations that may inhibit initiation of adaptive responses, degree of investment in social roles, and issues of expectation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081028201 A |
| Classmark | SNW: SNA: G3: SM: F:5HH: DP: 3J: 7T |
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