| Autor: |
Rosemary Santana Cooney, Lloyd H. Rogler, Rose Marie Hurrell, Vilma Ortiz |
| Rok vydání: |
1982 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Marriage and the Family. 44:621 |
| ISSN: |
0022-2445 |
| DOI: |
10.2307/351584 |
| Popis: |
This study examines the utility of Rodmans theory of resources in cultural context for understanding decision-making patterns among spouses in intergenerationally linked Puerto Rican families in the US. The data comes from a larger project focusing on continuity and change in Puerto Rican families. 2 criteria for selection were: Puerto Rican birth or Puerto Rican parentage of both husband and wife and the linkage of each husband-wife couple as parent or child to another husband-wife couple in the study group. An important consideration in selecting families for the larger project was to maximize differences in socioeconomic status. The measures of decision making used in the study are based on 6 items which reflect a mixture of decisions relevant to both the parent and child generation. These items include 2 masculine decisions: husbands job and insurance; 2 feminine decisions: wifes employment and home improvements; and 2 highly shared decisions: vacation plans and residence. 2 measures of decision making are derived from these items: husbands power and shared decisions. The decision making measures are based on the wifes reports. 3 major sets of independent variables were used: socioeconomic variables family lifecycle characteristics and assimilation variables. Descriptive statistics reveal similar levels for husbands power and shared decisions. In the husband-wife couples of both the parent and child generations 1/2 of the decisions included in the inventory are shared. A substantial majority of husbands and wives shared decisions regarding their place of residence insurance vacation plans and home improvements. About 1/3 also shared decisions regarding the husbands or wifes job. The relationship of wifes education with decision making does not vary by generation. In both the parent and child generations the greater the wifes education the less the husbands power in decision making. The significant differences in assimilation between the parent and child generations established by the study support the hypothesis that the sociocultural norms of the parent generation born and raised in the US reflect those of a transitional egalitarian society. The studys data support the expectation: husbands in the parent generation with higher socioeconomic achievements reflecting socialization to modern values had less power in decision making while husbands in the child generation with higher socioeconomic achievements representing power resources had greater power in decision making. |
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OpenAIRE |
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