The Impact of Husbands' Retirement on Wives' Marital Quality

Autor:	Barbara H. Vinick, Tanya R. Fitzpatrick, Msw
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject behavior and behavior mechanisms population characteristics Normative Demographic economics Quality (business) social sciences Development Psychology Social psychology humanities media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Family Social Work. 7:83-100
ISSN:	1540-4072 1052-2158
DOI:	10.1300/j039v07n01_06
Popis:	Recent studies view retirement as a family transition that affects others in the close family circle, as well as the retiree, and is a process that occurs over time, and not as a single event. It therefore behooves us to learn more about how husbands' retirement affects the women with whom male retirees share their lives. Furthermore, most previous research has studied the wives of retirees using cross-sectional designs. In general, findings have indicated that husbands' retirement has little effect on wives' marital quality. This study is an advance over much of the previous research in that we use a longitudinal design. We have examined wives' assessments of marital quality including contextual life changes before their husbands' retirements, and have compared the assessments of the same wives following their husbands' retirements. To study these phenomena, we used data from the Normative Aging Study, administering the DAS to 61 wives prior and subsequent to husbands' retirement. We used means ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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