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Continuity and discontinuity in attitudes toward marital power relations
— pre-retired vs retired husbands | | Author(s) | Liat Kulik, Haia Zuckerman Bareli |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 17, part 5, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 571-595 |
| Keywords | Husbands ; Retired persons ; Preparation [retirement] ; Attitude ; Personal relationships ; Married couples ; Life span ; Theory ; Comparison ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This paper compares the attitudes of married men close to retirement with those already retired on their perceptions of power relations. An integrative model based on Resource Theory was designed to analyse the effect of these variables: perceived resources, attitudes toward gender roles, emotional commitment to his wife, and anticipated dependence on her. The model was tested on Israeli men - 137 pre-retired and 211 retirees. Contrary to expectations of a decline in the retired husband's perceived power, no differences were found between the two groups, except for a reported increase in social power among the older group. There were major differences in the overall impact of variables: perceived economic resources had the strongest explanatory power for pre-retired, whereas psychosocial factors best explained variance among retirees. Perceptions of husbands' marital power relations may be coloured by feelings of status anxiety. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971117005 A |
| Classmark | SNA: BB6: GA: DP: DS: SM: BG6: 4D: 48: 7H6 |
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