Dual Earner Husbands and Wives: Marital Satisfaction and the Workplace Culture of Each Spouse

Daphne Pedersen () and Krista Minnotte ()

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2012, vol. 33, issue 3, 272-282

Abstract: This article focuses on the relationship between workplace culture and marital satisfaction for dual-earner husbands and wives (N = 156 couples). We use contagion theory as a framework, and posit that the experiences of both partners contribute to perceptions of marital satisfaction held by individual spouses. Breaking workplace culture into three components (time demands, work pressure, and workplace social support), we find evidence in the full model of both individual (spillover) and spousal (crossover) effects for the marital satisfaction of dual-earner wives, and spousal (crossover) effects for dual-earner husbands. In particular, our analyses highlight the important role played by wives’ workplace social support. Implications of the study are discussed. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

Keywords: Crossover; Dual-earner couples; Marital satisfaction; Workplace social support; Workplace culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10834-012-9294-3

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