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Economic Factors in Marital Adjustment.
Economic Factors in Marital Adjustment.
- Source :
- Marriage & Family Living; Nov1952, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p298-301, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 1952
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Abstract
- This article presents a study which examined economic factors that were assumed to have a positive relationship to marital adjustment. Economic factors have never received sufficient attention in the studies of marital adjustment. Furthermore the research that has been directed to the problem has brought forth not altogether clear results. One reason for this situation has been that there is a very complex relationship between such factors as income and security and the psychological process of adjustment. Another problem is the lack of representativeness of the samples in most previous studies which have concentrated on members of the upper middle class or at least have had upper educational groups represented. Consequently most of the surveys have found relatively little significance in the economic factors in marital adjustment. The economic factors used in the study are: social status, as indicated by location and type of residence, level of education, and occupation; economic security, as shown by such indices as savings, regularity of employment, and lack of debts; and effective economic management, as shown by budgeting and efficient management of the home. These would operate as guiding hypotheses, and, of course, be subject to critical evaluation. and 62 women. There was, in addition, an intermediate group that could be considered neither happy nor unhappy. After selection of the high and low groups, analysis was made of the responses to the various socio-economic items on the questionnaire. The critical ratio technique was employed as a test of significance.
- Subjects :
- MARITAL adjustment
MARITAL relations
SOCIAL status
ECONOMIC security
SOCIAL factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08857059
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Marriage & Family Living
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16463089
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/348717