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Dishes And Diapers: The Division Of Labor And Marital Quality Across The Transition To Parenthood, Katherine E. Newkirk
Dishes And Diapers: The Division Of Labor And Marital Quality Across The Transition To Parenthood, Katherine E. Newkirk
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This study examines relationships between the division of housework and childcare and marital love and conflict and perceived fairness as a mediator of those relationships. Gender role ideology is also examined as a moderator of the relationships between the division of labor predictors and perceived fairness. To this end 112 working-class, dual-earner couples having their first child were interviewed at three time points during the first year of parenthood after mothers returned to work. Findings indicate that wives’ reported greater marital love when their husbands performed more housework and more childcare, with fairness as a mediator of those relations. Husbands’ …
The Role Of Family Routines And Rituals In The Psychological Well Being Of Emerging Adults, Yesel Yoon
The Role Of Family Routines And Rituals In The Psychological Well Being Of Emerging Adults, Yesel Yoon
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Adolescence and emerging adulthood are both critical transition phases wrought with developmental changes and challenges. One of the major developmental tasks that families of children, adolescents and emerging adults deal with is facilitating the development of emotion regulation. The practices that families engage in that attempt to create order and stability within the family—their routines and rituals—may be one key family variable that helps develop better emotion regulation. Family routines and rituals tend to create a more stable environment, which in turn may predict better outcomes for individuals (Crespo, Davide, Costa & Fletcher, 2008; Fiese, 2007; Leon & Jacobvitz, 2003). …