TY - JOUR
T1 - Wives' employment and spouses' marital happiness
T2 - Assessing the direction of influence using longitudinal couple data
AU - Schoen, Robert
AU - Rogers, Stacy J.
AU - Amato, Paul R.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics. The results show that shifting into full-time employment is more likely for unhappily married than for happily married wives. Second, they examine how changes in wives' employment between Times 1 and 2 influence marital stability and changes in marital happiness. The authors find that contrary to frequently invoked social and economic theories, wives' full-time employment is associated with greater marital stability. Nonetheless, changes in wives' employment have no significant effect on how marital quality changes between Times 1 and 2.
AB - The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics. The results show that shifting into full-time employment is more likely for unhappily married than for happily married wives. Second, they examine how changes in wives' employment between Times 1 and 2 influence marital stability and changes in marital happiness. The authors find that contrary to frequently invoked social and economic theories, wives' full-time employment is associated with greater marital stability. Nonetheless, changes in wives' employment have no significant effect on how marital quality changes between Times 1 and 2.
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U2 - 10.1177/0192513X05283983
DO - 10.1177/0192513X05283983
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646722353
SN - 0192-513X
VL - 27
SP - 506
EP - 528
JO - Journal of Family Issues
JF - Journal of Family Issues
IS - 4
ER -