Male Dominance, Role Segregation, and Spouses' Interdependence in Conflict

Wagner, Wolfgang; Kirchler, Erich; Clack, Felicia; Tekarslan, Erdal; Verma, Jyoti

doi:10.1177/0022022190211002

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“…The level of female authority within the family was measured regarding the degree of the wife’s authority compared to her husband’s in household decision-making [ 13 , 36 ]. An 8-item scale was used to assess who had the final say on important household decision-making issues.…”

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Differences in the acceptance of wife abuse among ethnic minority Garo and Santal and mainstream Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh

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Studies on wife abuse in Bangladesh predominantly include the mainstream Bengali population, although there are at least 27 ethnic minority communities including a few ‘female-centered’ matrilineal groups living in the country. This study explored ethnic differences in the attitudinal acceptance of wife abuse among matrilineal ethnic minority Garo , patrilineal ethnic minority Santal , and mainstream patriarchal Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh. Adopting a cross-sectional design, the study included 1,929 women and men randomly selected from 24 Garo , Santal , and Bengali villages. Multivariate Poisson regression was performed to predict the number of contextual events, where the respondents attitudinally endorsed wife abuse. Of the sample, 33.2% were from Garo , 33.2% from Santal , and 33.6% from the Bengali communities. The acceptance of wife abuse was high in the sample; specifically, 34.1% of the respondents accepted physical wife abuse, 67.5% accepted emotional abuse, and 71.6% accepted any abuse (either physical or emotional) at least on one contextual reason provided in a 10-item scale. The mean for accepting any abuse was 3.0 ( SD = 2.8), emotional abuse 2.3 ( SD = 2.2), and physical abuse 0.8 ( SD = 1.4). The study showed that the rates of accepting any abuse and physical abuse were respectively 16% and 56% lower among Garo as well as 14% and 33% lower among Santal than that of the Bengali community. Data also revealed that individual level factors like younger age, higher education, prestigious occupation as well as family level factors such as higher income, female mobility, and female family authority were inversely associated with the acceptance of wife abuse in the sample. It appears that the gender regime of a society has a great influence on the attitudes toward wife abuse. We argue that a comprehensive socio-cultural transformation of the patriarchal societies into a gender equal order is imperative for the prevention of widespread wife abuse in the country.

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Differences in the acceptance of wife abuse among ethnic minority Garo and Santal and mainstream Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh

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“…How do husbands and wives relate to these conflicts? In their cross-cultural study, Wagner et al (1990) found that coping and resolving marital conflicts reflected, to a large extent, social and cultural variables, especially the degree of spouses' interdependence. They inferred from their data that in Western countries (including the United States), where an egalitarian relationship was likely to exist, couples depended on each other for making personal decisions.…”

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Gender Role Ideology as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Power Tactics and Marital Satisfaction

2008

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The study examined whether the Power Interaction Model is applicable for explaining the choice of power tactics in conflict situations among Israeli married couples. In addition, gender role ideology was tested as a moderator of the relationship between power usage and marital satisfaction. Seventy-eight couples reported on self usage and spouse's usage of power tactic behaviors during conflicts and completed questionnaires assessing marital satisfaction, gender role ideology (traditional, liberal) and demographics. Findings indicated greater agreement within couples for harsh rather than for soft tactic preference. As expected, preference for harsh tactics was associated with lower marital satisfaction yet gender role ideology moderated this association. The role of conflict and power usage in traditional and liberal families was addressed.

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“…Culture and ethnicity may be among the most salient contextual factors in the study of family system and subsystem relations because of the significant variability in gender role norms, family roles, and the structure of family decision making across ethnic and cultural groups~Casa de la Mujer, 1988;Huston, 1983;Yllö, 1993!. Egalitarianism and shared authority, in the form of role diffusion, have increasingly become accepted and expected by marital partners in contemporary EuropeanAmerican culture~Komter, 1989;Mintz & Kellogg, 1988;Wagner, Kirchler, Clack, Tekarslan, & Verma, 1990!. An egalitarian couple dynamic includes shared decision making and an emphasis on democratic or nonhierarchical systemic processes.…”

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Couple power dynamics, systemic family functioning, and child adjustment: A test of a mediational model in a multiethnic sample

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Malik

Kaczynski

et al. 2004

Develop. Psychopathol.

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Power dynamics in the marital dyad and systemic elements of whole-family functioning~cohesion, subsystem boundary formations! were examined in relation to each other and also in relation to child adjustment in a multiethnic sample of families. Support was found for a mediational model, such that family functioning was found to mediate the relationship between marital power dynamics and children's internalizing and externalizing behavior. Some support also was found for ethnicity as a moderator of the association between systemic family processes and children's adjustment. Disturbances in family cohesion and subsystem boundaries were more strongly related to internalizing symptomatology for children in European American families compared to children in Hispanic American families.

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Male Dominance, Role Segregation, and Spouses' Interdependence in Conflict

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Differences in the acceptance of wife abuse among ethnic minority Garo and Santal and mainstream Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh

Differences in the acceptance of wife abuse among ethnic minority Garo and Santal and mainstream Bengali communities in rural Bangladesh

Gender Role Ideology as a Moderator of the Relationship between Social Power Tactics and Marital Satisfaction

Couple power dynamics, systemic family functioning, and child adjustment: A test of a mediational model in a multiethnic sample

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