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- Title
Physicians' wives evaluate their marriages, their husbands, and life in medicine: Results of the AMA-Alliance Medical Marriage Survey.
- Authors
Sotile, Wayne M.; Sotile, Mary O.
- Abstract
This largest-ever investigation of the attitudes, lifestyles, and marital adjustment of physicians' wives disputes many stereotypes of medical marriage. Responses of 603 members of the American Medical Association Alliance to standardized and subjective measures indicated high levels of marital adjustment and overall satisfaction with work/life balance. Wives' marital adjustment was affected by age of oldest child, husbands' work hours, and wives' work outside the home. It is proposed that, more than hours worked, it is how a couple treats each other when they are not working that most powerfully determines the quality of a contemporary medical marriage. Wives' advice on marital and work/life issues is summarized.
- Subjects
PHYSICIANS' spouses; MARRIAGE; MEDICINE; MARITAL relations; MARITAL adjustment; MARITAL satisfaction; SPOUSES' legal relationship
- Publication
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 2004, Vol 68, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0025-9284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/bumc.68.1.39.27730