Continuity and Discontinuity in Attitudes toward Marital Power Relations
Pre-retired vs Retired Husbands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11200277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liat Kulik (0000-0003-1094-1886), HAIA ZUCKERMAN BARELI (Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 571-595 |
| Publication date | 1997-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ageing and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0144686x97006491 |
| OpenAlex | W2150058905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Taking a life-cycle approach to marital power relations, the paper compares the attitudes of married men close to retirement with those who are retired. An integrative model based on Resource Theory was designed to analyse the effect of several variables on the husband's perceptions of power relations: perceived resources, attitudes toward gender roles, emotional commitment to his wife and anticipated dependence on her. The model was tested on a sample of 348 Israeli men – 137 pre-retired and 211 retirees. Contrary to expectations of a decline in the retired husband's perceived power, no differences were found between the two groups except for a reported increase in social power among the older group. Major differences were found, however, regarding the overall impact of variables: perceived economic resources had the strongest explanatory power for pre-retired respondents, whereas it was psycho-social factors (anticipated dependence on the wife for satisfaction of emotional needs, psychological resources, and emotional commitment to the wife) that best explained variance among retirees. The increased dependence of retired husbands on their wives' expressive resources seems to contradict their reports of greater social power, suggesting that their perceptions of marital power relations may be coloured by feelings of status anxiety
Anxiety · Feeling · Perception · Political science · Power (physics) · Wife · Health disparities and outcomes · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology
Living together full time? Middle-class couples approaching retirement
Intrafamiliar Congruence in Gender-Role Ideology
The Interaction of Class and Gender in Illness Narratives
Marital Characteristics and Retirement Decisions
Honeymoons and Joint Lunches
Predicting Gender Role Stereotypes among Adolescents in Israel
Predicting Gender-Role Attitudes Among Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters in Israel
Predicting Gender Role Ideology Among Husbands and Wives in Israel
Attitudes Toward Spousal Caregiving and Their Correlates Among Aging Women
The Impact of Men's and Women's Retirement on Marital Relations
Developments in Spousal Power Relations
The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives
Swimming against the tide
The Impact of Social Background on Gender-role Ideology
Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2011 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |