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- Title
Role Identity, Role Satisfaction, and Perceived Physical Health.
- Authors
Wickrama, Kas; Conger, Rand D.; Lorenz, Frederick O.; Matthews, Lisa
- Abstract
Using two waves of data for 310 husbands and wives living in the rural midwest, this study tested gender differences in the relationships between job, marital and parental satisfaction, and perceived physical health. The findings support the hypothesized model based on identity theory, which for these rural couples proposes a greater positive influence of work satisfaction on husbands' perceived physical health, and a greater positive influence of parental satisfaction on wives' perceived physical health, after controlling for previous health status, earnings, and education. For these longtime married couples, the findings also supported the hypothesis that marital satisfaction would equally affect husbands' and wives' perceived physical health. The study also tested the within-gender moderating effects of commitment to occupational success and parental involvement. The results revealed that the level of involvement in parenting, assumed to be a marker of identification with the role of caregiver, moderated the effect of parental satisfaction on perceived physical health for wives. For husbands the level of commitment to occupational success moderated the effect of work satisfaction on perceived physical health. This study underscores the utility of an identity perspective for explaining gender differences in the relationship between different role experiences and perceived physical well-being.
- Subjects
MIDWEST (U.S.); MARRIED people; GENDER role; MARITAL satisfaction; PHYSICAL fitness; OCCUPATIONAL achievement
- Publication
Social Psychology Quarterly, 1995, Vol 58, Issue 4, p270
- ISSN
0190-2725
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2787128