Determinants of Male Family-Role Performance

Three competing hypotheses are tested regarding determinants of husband's (vs. wife's) participation in 12 selected household/child-care activities. The research utilizes interview responses of husbands, although it compares responses of both husbands and wives in a proportionate stratifie...

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Published inPsychology of women quarterly Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 53 - 66
Main Authors Perrucci, Carolyn C., Potter, Harry R., Rhoads, Deborah L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.1978
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cambridge University Press, etc
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Activity/Activities
Child care
Employment
Family roles
Feminism
Feminist psychology
Household/Households
Husband/Husbands
Husbands
Hypotheses
Married couples
Men
Occupational roles
Participate/Participatory/ Participation/ Participative
Psychology
Socialization
Wives
Womens studies
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Summary:Three competing hypotheses are tested regarding determinants of husband's (vs. wife's) participation in 12 selected household/child-care activities. The research utilizes interview responses of husbands, although it compares responses of both husbands and wives in a proportionate stratified area-probability sample from adjacent midwestern cities. The socialization-ideology hypothesis receives the strongest, albeit modest, support of the three hypotheses. Only marginal support is found for the relative husband/wife resources hypothesis, emphasizing professional employment of wives. No support is found for the time-availability hypothesis. Implications for the further integration of work and family roles for men are considered.
Bibliography:The authors are affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Stone Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907. They are grateful for the help received from Brent Smith, who provided computer‐programming assistance for this study.
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ISSN:0361-6843
1471-6402
DOI:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1978.tb00525.x