The Pathology of the Dual-Career Couples: A Qualitative Study

Mohammad Gerami, Ozra Etemadi, Sayyed Ahmad Ahmadi and Maryam Fatehizade

Global Journal of Health Science, 2017, vol. 9, issue 5, 226

Abstract: INTRODUCTION- The structure of traditional family was now changing towards the dual-career ones and due to the impacts that dual-career couples have on the structure of the family, it was necessary to investigate these effects from a discovery perspective. On this base, the present study aims to investigate the pathology of the Iranian dual-career couples’ life.METHOD- In terms of methodology, the study was done qualitatively and it was validated by the grounded theory. The participants were dual-career couples in Yazd. The sampling was done purposefully with 24 participants in a half-organized interview. A theoretically codified method and grounded theory were used to analyze and validate data gathered in this respect.FINDINGS- The findings of the study showed that the pathology of the dual-career couples based on three issues and aspects include entity and conceptual and abstract contents. It included A- reasons and elements (career- family and family-career conflicts, the hierarchical order for power and influence, issues and management of financial and economic affairs), B- actions (the responsibility division, the problem of sexual and marital relations in, the issues of child raising and child rearing, decrease of intimacy and the time of being together), and C- consequences (lack of happiness and joy, decrease of the relations with the relatives, nutritional, spiritual and psychological issues).CONCLUSION- Generally, the results of the study showed that dual-career couples’ experience the pathology and conflicts influence their job and these pathologies were presented in the form of a conceptual model.

Date: 2017
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/download/61512/34270 (application/pdf)
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/view/61512 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibn:gjhsjl:v:9:y:2017:i:5:p:226

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Global Journal of Health Science from Canadian Center of Science and Education Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Canadian Center of Science and Education ().