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- Title
Put Yourself in My Work Shoes: Variations in Work-Related Spousal Support for Professional Married Coworkers.
- Authors
Janning, Michelle
- Abstract
Level and type of spousal shared work has been oversimplified in past research. This research proposes that being similar to a spouse, in the case of paid work, differs depending on whether spouses share workplace, occupation, or both. And this level and type of similarity can influence the level and qualitative characteristics of work-related spousal support as an indicator of marital satisfaction. The results of this study are based on 52 individual semistructured interviews with each member of 26 professional married couples for whom work is shared in terms of occupation, workplace, both, or neither. The level and characteristics of spousal support vary to some extent by occupation pattern. Most strikingly, people who share both occupation and workplace feel that they work closely with their spouses and that working together has been beneficial to their marriages. However, the components of working together qualitatively vary by occupation category.
- Subjects
SUPPORT (Domestic relations); EMPLOYMENT of married people; WORK environment; OCCUPATIONS; SHARING; SPOUSES
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 2006, Vol 27, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0192513X05277811