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| The therapeutic role in later life: husbands, wives and couples | | Author(s) | Trudy B Anderson, John R Earle, Charles F Longino Jr |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 45, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 49-66 |
| Keywords | Personal relationships ; Married couples ; Husbands ; Wives ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Previous studies have found that married men and women play different roles in the exchange of social support. This study investigated the extent to which marital partners are different or similar in their ways of enacting the therapeutic, or supportive, role. Specifically, the article compares husbands and wives categorically as in non-dyadic studies and then as marital partners as in dyadic studies. In addition, by using data from the Aging Couples Study the study included only dual-income couples so as to control for the effects of working life on marital relations. Results showed that studies of individual married men and women understate the differences between marital partners in that some wives `over-benefit' in the exchange of conjugal support. However, husbands were more likely to `over-benefit'. Findings also indicated that the norm of reciprocity did not prevail regarding the extent of support, although it did for the types of support exchanged. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827238 A |
| Classmark | DS: SM: SNA: SNW: 7T |
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