Employment status, gender role attitudes, and marital dependence in later life.

A study explored whether couples' employment/retirement patterns relate to their perceptions of relative marital dependence and whether these relationships are contingent on spouses' gender role attitudes. The study sample were a subsample of 763 married couples with husbands aged from 55 to 72 year...

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Published in:	Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 55; pp. 927 - 941
Main Authors:	Szinovácz, Maximiliane, Harpster, Paula
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell November 1993
Subjects:	Gender role Marital relations Retirement & psychology Dependency (Psychology)
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