Parental influences on the development of marital gender role attitudes.
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Title
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Parental influences on the development of marital gender role attitudes.
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Identifier
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AAI9207083
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identifier
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9207083
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Creator
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Ivey, Miriam Rendon.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Vera Paster
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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The relationship between an individual's perceptions of his/her parents' marital gender-role attitudes and pursuant marital quality, and the marital gender-role attitudes of that individual within his/her own marriage was examined using self-report measures for sex-role attitude and marital sex-role incongruence (Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale, Beere et al., 1984) and marital quality (Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Spanier, 1976). Twenty-nine randomly selected couples meeting preset criteria participated. A questionnaire packet was used to collect data for each marital partner and the husbands' and wives' data were analyzed separately. Perceptions of parental sex-role attitudes and marital quality, as well as perceptions of spouse's sex-role attitudes, were acquired by administering the measures for sex-role egalitarianism and dyadic adjustment in multiples and from various perspectives (i.e.: "Fill out the following questionnaire as your mother would have when you were growing up/as you feel now", etc.). Findings indicated that: gender is a determinant of how influential the experience of one's parents' marriage is on one's experience of the quality and the balance of sex-roles within one's marriage. Men are more likely to be the more egalitarian spouse and women are more likely to perceive their husbands as the more egalitarian spouse if they perceived better marital parental marital quality when they perceived their father as the more egalitarian parent. Women's perceptions of parental marital quality are influenced more by their perceptions of others' sex-role attitudes. Women are more likely to rate the quality of their marriage more positively when they perceive their husbands as being the more egalitarian spouse. Men are more likely to perceive their marriages as greater in quality the older they are and the longer they have been married. Married individuals hold more egalitarian sex-role attitudes than those they perceived for their parents.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
