What's Love Got to Do with It? Equality, Equity, Commitment and Women's Marital Quality

Autor/inn/en	Wilcox, W. Bradford; Nock, Steven L.
Titel	What's Love Got to Do with It? Equality, Equity, Commitment and Women's Marital Quality
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 84 (2006) 3, S.1321-1345 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1353/sof.2006.0076
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Marital Satisfaction; Females; Marriage; Housework; Sex Fairness; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ehe; Hausarbeit; Sexualaufklärung; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	The companionate theory of marriage suggests that egalitarianism in practice and belief leads to higher marital quality for wives and higher levels of positive emotion work on the part of husbands. Our analysis of women's marital quality and men's marital emotion work provides little evidence in support of this theory. Rather, in examining women's marital quality and men's emotional investments in marriage, we find that dyadic commitment to institutional ideals about marriage and women's contentment with the division of household tasks are more critical. We also show that men's marital emotion work is a very important determinant of women's marital quality. We conclude by noting that "her" marriage is happiest when it combines elements of the new and old: that is, gender equity and normative commitment to the institution of marriage. (As Provided).
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