Role Balance and Marital Satisfaction in Taiwanese Couples: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Approach

Stressful Life Events, Marital Satisfaction, and Marital Management Skills of Taiwanese Couples

“…He proposed that the couple has greater marital satisfaction if a husband has more egalitarian values than his wife, who has relatively traditional values. Therefore, when a husband can practice more egalitarian gender roles (e.g., willingness to sacrifice his needs, not insisting on his own power and opinions) in a changing hierarchical but still quite patriarchal society such as Taiwan, the wife would feel much more satisfied with the husband's efforts in marriage; this relationship is in line with previous Taiwanese findings (Chen & Li, ; Wu et al, ) and American studies (Brehm, Miller, Perlman, & Campbell, ).…”

Work-family conflict and mental health in newlywed and recently cohabiting couples: a couple perspective

“…Marks (2009) found that role-balanced individuals indirectly improve their spouse's wellbeing: they are more willing to help with supportive behaviour in terms of attentiveness and care and in dealing with difficult situations. Chen and Li (2012) also confirmed that the role balance of both individuals and of their partners affects marital satisfaction in men and women. These are two of only a few studies that offer deeper insight into the mutual influence of work and family processes in couples.…”

“…Both are strongly related, but conceptually and empirically distinct (Duxbury, Higgins, & Lee, 1994;Frone, Russell, & Cooper, 1992). Both predict decreases in support between family members and lower levels of marital satisfaction (Chen & Li, 2012;Symoens & Bracke, 2007), as well as heightened chances of burnout and less satisfaction with work (Bellavia & Frone, 2005;Symoens & Bracke, 2007). A shortage of time and energy, and problems concerning inconsistent role expectations are most often cited as causes (Bellavia & Frone, 2005;Greenhaus et al, 2003;Higgins, Duxbury, & Johnson, 2000).…”

“…This study goes a step further by studying men and women in their dyadic relationship because we expect that patterns of mutual influence between partners may exist in work-family conflict. We expect a woman's experience of work-family conflict will also influence her partner's wellbeing and vice versa (i.e., crossover-effects, see Chen & Li, 2012;Kenny et al, 2006). Furthermore, in line with research by Brock and Lawrence (2008) and Stier, Lewin-Epstein, and Braun (2012), we study young couples both with and without children.…”

Marital Satisfaction, Negative Interaction, and Religiosity: A Comparison of Three Age Groups

“…MARITAL SATISFACTION AND WELL-BEING Satisfaction with marriage has been shown to be influenced by multiple, often interacting variables, with roots in premarital cognitions and behaviors (Johnson & Anderson, 2013). These wide-ranging predictors of marital satisfaction include dyadic coping strategies (Landis, Peter-Wright, Martin, & Bodenmann, 2013); family-of-origin influence (Peltz Dennison, Silverberg Koerner, & Segrin, 2014); personality similarities and differences (O'Rourke, Claxton, Chou, Smith, & Hadjistavropoulos, 2011); role balance (Chen & Li, 2012); workload and job satisfaction (van Steenbergen, Kluwer, & Karney, 2011); economic pressure, cultural adaptation stress, depression (Helms, Supple, Jinni, Rodriguez, Cavanaugh, & Hengstebeck, 2014); physical attractiveness of partner (Meltzer, McNulty, Jackson, & Karney, 2014); love attachment style (Ottu & Akpan, 2011); parenthood (Twenge, Campbell, & Foster, 2003); and characteristics of children (Mohammadi et al, 2012).…”