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    title: prediction of marital satisfaction among dual-career couples with children by instrumental and expressive personality traits and marital role strain
  name:
    name part: Scott, Elizabeth A
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: LeUnes, Arnold
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Roach, Arthur J.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Smith, Darrell
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 91 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: The major purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of marital role strain and masculine and feminine personality traits on the level of marital satisfaction among dual-career couples with children. Studies show that dual-career couples tend to experience a high degree of stress, yet also realize high marital satisfaction. The present study was an attempt to distinguish personality trait combinations among couples that augment the adaptation to the dual-career lifestyle. The couples' personality traits were also compared to the actual and ideal role divisions in an attempt to differentiate factors influencing the level of role strain and marital satisfaction. A further expressed purpose of this study was to begin to develop an inventory that measured role strain in marriage based on role divisions among couples. The Marital Satisfaction Scale-Form B was selected as the criterion measure. Sixty-nine dual-career couples with children completed the following inventories: The Personal Data Inventory, used to compile descriptive data; the Personal Attributes Questionnaire, a measure of masculinity and femininity as separate variables; and the Marital Tasks Inventory, developed by the author to measure actual versus ideal role task divisions among couples. Data analysis used multiple regression models to determine the predictiveness of research variables. The results of the study indicate that the dual-career couples with children realize a high degree of marital satisfaction. High masculine traits in both husband and/or wife were predictive of high marital satisfaction. High masculine and feminine traits in the wife were also conducive to high marital satisfaction. Couples where both husband and wife were high in masculine and feminine traits experienced low role strain. Couples where the husbands were high in masculinity and low in femininity married to wives high in both traits, experienced high marital satisfaction and high role strain. Results also indicate…
  note: "Major subject: Educational Psychology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1983
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-82).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
  subject:
    topic: Marriage
    geographic: United States
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Married people
    topic: Employment
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Educational Psychology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-551141
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 841116
    record change date: 20220103135219.0
    record identifier: in00000533836
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng