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Title: Variations by Family Structure and Family Size in the Relationship Between Maternal Work Hours and Marital Quality
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Rogers, Stacy J. |
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Variations by Family Structure and Family Size in the Relationship Between Maternal Work Hours and Marital Quality Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Family Characteristics; Family Size; Family Structure; Marital Conflict; Marital Satisfaction/Quality; Mothers; Sex Roles; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This research uses the 1988 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Merged Child-Mother data set to investigate the association between married mothers' employment and their reports of marital conflict and marital happiness in continuously married families with children and mother/stepfather families with children. For continuously married families, the findings indicate a nonsignificant trend that is consistent with role strain perspectives. For mother/stepfather families there is a significant trend in which mothers full-time employment is associated with higher marital quality when there are more children in the household. These findings are interpreted in light of the distributive justice perspective's emphasis on the meanings of roles and the importance of spouses' perceptions of equity for marital quality. |
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Rogers, Stacy J. "Variations by Family Structure and Family Size in the Relationship Between Maternal Work Hours and Marital Quality." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996. |