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- Title
Marital Quality of Newlywed African American Couples: Implications of Egalitarian Gender Role Dynamics.
- Authors
Stanik, Christine; Bryant, Chalandra
- Abstract
This research examined associations between husbands' and wives' gender role attitudes, division of household labor, and marital quality in a sample of 697 newlywed African American couples residing in the southern region of the United States. Guided by a cultural ecological framework, we tested hypotheses specific to the unique socio-cultural context of African Americans using a mixed model ANCOVA design. Results revealed that: (1) couples reported lower marital quality when husbands had relatively more traditional gender role attitudes; (2) husbands reported lower marital quality when the couple engaged in a relatively more traditional division of household labor; and (3) husbands with more traditional attitudes who also engaged in a traditional division of labor reported lower marital quality compared to all other husbands. Although African Americans are thought to have more flexible gender role orientations than other racial/ethnic groups within the U.S., these results document within group variability in couple gender dynamics and its association with variability in marital quality.
- Subjects
MARITAL quality; RELATIONSHIP quality; NEWLYWEDS; MARRIED people; GENDER differences (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY; MARRIED people's attitudes
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2012, Vol 66, Issue 3-4, p256
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11199-012-0117-7