Marital happiness of returning women students and their husbands: Effects of part and full-time enrollment |
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| Authors: | J Jill Suitor |
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| Institution: | (1) Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, 128 Horton Social Science Center, 03824 Durham, NH |
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| Abstract: | Forty-four married mothers and thirty-three of their husbands were interviewed in depth at the beginning and the end of the women's first year of enrollment in a university to study changes in marital happiness when women return to school. Marital happiness declined over the year among couples in which wives were enrolled as full-time students, and changed little among couples in which wives were enrolled as part-time students. Marital happiness changed substantially more among husbands than wives. The decline in marital happiness among full-time students and their husbands appears to have been related to changes in the women's performance of family roles over the year, and to husbands' responses to those changes. Implications for practice and policy are discussed.An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Antonio, Texas, August, 1984. |
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