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- Title
Spontaneity and specificity in social role relationships.
- Authors
Rodgers, David A.
- Abstract
In this article two hypotheses were tested: role demands tend to place greater emphasis on spontaneity and independence than do role concepts, and role demands tend to place greater emphasis on specific acts of behavior and less emphasis on general personality characteristics than do role concepts. The results concerning the wife role consistently support the hypothesis that role concepts underestimate the role-demand emphasis on spontaneity and overestimate the emphasis on conformity. The results concerning the husband role are more ambiguous, supporting the hypothesis in one analysis but failing to reach acceptable significance levels in the other analyses. No support is provided for the hypothesis that role concepts place greater emphasis on general characteristics than do role demands. There is evidence that the opposite occurs, that the demands are couched in more general terms than is anticipated in the concepts. This finding would suggest that at least for the husband-wife roles the actor may have more leeway in determining the particular manner in which he fills his role than he perceives.
- Subjects
SPONTANEITY (Personality trait); SOCIAL role; BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS; CONFORMITY; SPOUSES' legal relationship
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1959, Vol 27, Issue 3, p300
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1959.tb02354.x