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Marital Roles And Their Relationship To Marital Happiness And Self Concept, Gary L. Devries
Marital Roles And Their Relationship To Marital Happiness And Self Concept, Gary L. Devries
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Marital roles have become a subject of major concern in recent years. Many critiques consider traditional marriage roles to be responsible for hindering appropriate social-emotional development of the wife, in particular, and also the husband. Past research in assessing the relationship between marital roles and the happiness and well-being of husbands and wives is limited in quantity and generally is inconclusive or controversial. This study was designed to clarify the relationship between marriage roles and two dependent variables, marital happiness and self concept.
The sample population consisted of 124 volunteer couples selected from the teaching staffs of eight school districts …