Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-202).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-100, 51-52).

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-100, 51-52).

The present study was an attempt to further investigate what factors contributed to whether married individuals defined their relationship as traditional or nontraditional. The project, moreover, explored what variables affected marital adjustment levels. The variables whose effects were assessed regarding whether married individuals defined their relationship as traditional or nontraditional included self-actualization and presence or absence of children. The factors examined thought to affect marital adjustment levels were self-actualization, subjective definition of the relationship as traditional or nontraditional, and presence or absence of children.

The stress process was examined for a sample of 94 dual-career women. The relationship between sources (role strain), mediators (coping responses, psychological resources of self-esteem and low self-denigration, number and age of children), and outcome (feelings associated with role strains) was quantitatively assessed via factor analysis to determine the efficacy of mediators in the stress process. Seven coping strategies were identified: Cognitive Restructuring, Delegating Responsibility, Limiting Responsibility, Integrating Work and Family, Avoiding Responsibility, and Using Social Support. Results indicated that strain accounts for a large portion of the variation in stress. Cognitive Restructuring was the most crucial coping response in the stress process, having the greatest effect in reducing not only strain, but also stress; low self-denigration was the most critical psychological resource, buffering both strain and stress levels. Limiting Responsibility was associated with higher levels of strain. In addition, stress was found to increase as number of children increased and as age of youngest child decreased. / Master of Science

The Marital Interaction Dimension Inventory (MIDI) is an assessment that evaluates marital relationships on seven dimensions; sexuality, self disclosure, emotional affiliation, conflict resolution, power outcome, commitment, and identity. The MIDI provides scores on and individual's actual and desired relationship.

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The objective of this research was to explore perceived stress and role conflict that dual-career couples are facing in South Africa. The relationship between work and family is a common topic in the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Research has been conducted in other countries, in particular the United States; however not much research has been undertaken in South Africa. Hence, the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of stress and role-conflict on dual-career couples and the relationship on work-family balance in this context. This research aimed to look at gender differences on work-family conflict, in an attempt to understand perceived role conflict and the interplay of spillover on dual-career couples. A cross-sectional research design with a snowball sampling technique was used. The sample obtained for this research comprised of 105 participants who fulfilled the dual-career couple status. The Work Family Linkage Questionnaire (WFLQ) by Sumer and Knight (2001), with two additional questions on stress included by the researcher, were used as the measuring instrument. The results indicated that there were statistically and practically significant relationships between perceived stress and role-conflict in the different domains. Although no statistically significant results were obtained in the gender experience of role-conflict, when looking at the mean scores it was evident that men and women experienced role conflict differently. There were no significant differences between dual-career couples with and without children across all the sub-scales. However, the descriptive statistics suggested that dual-career couples without children experienced higher stress caused by work life than their counterparts with children. For future research it is recommended that more questions on stress be added, and also that variance in sample size of gender and couples with children and without children be increased as this was also a limitation of the current research. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-149).

O objetivo deste trabalho visa compreender a experiência de ser-si-mesmo e ser-com em situação conjugal na contemporaneidade. Para compreender tal paisagem subjetiva, discutem-se os processos de subjetivação dominantes em nossa cultura, sob a ética da eficácia e do consumo do sujeito individualista. As relações sociais e conjugais nesse cenário preocupam psicólogos clínicos e sociais por modos coisificantes de ser, exclusores de diferença: o ser-si-mesmo e o ser-com o outro têm sofrido tensão pois a individualização gera uma ruptura no modo de ser-com. Para compreender essa experiência, foram entrevistados três casais em modos diversos de situação conjugal. A interpretação seguiu o método da Analítica do Sentido. Percebe-se que cada casal apresenta seu modo próprio de compreensão de ser-com em situação conjugal. Uma compreensão do modo de ser humano, pelo recorte da situação conjugal poderia empreender-se como: ser entre tensão. A conjugalidade pode ser caracterizada por uma oscilação maior ou menor entre momentos de fusão e momentos de diferenciação entre os parceiros. Apontando, também, um bem estar como sendo a direção do sentido de estar com o outro. Essa elaboração de experiência pelos participantes possibilitou o encaminhamento de articulação entre a dimensão existencial da clínica e a cultura no modo de ser do homem contemporâneo como ser-no- mundo-com-outros sendo si mesmo. Neste sentido, talvez seja essa a contribuição deste trabalho: introduzir o diferente, como possibilidade de encontrar-se, pelo coletivo, como alteridade / This work aims to comprehend the experience of being oneself and being with in conjugal situation in the contemporaneous world. To articulate a possible comprehension such subjective landscape, we discuss the dominant processes in our culture to constitute the subjectivity, taking into account the individualistic subjects ethics of efficacy and of consume. The social and conjugal relationships in such scenery are a critical preoccupation among clinical and social psychologists; they are concerned by the modes of being as a thing, which promote exclusion of difference: being oneself and being with other have been suffering tension by the individualization which creates a rupture in the mode of being with. To reflect upon that experience, three couples, living different modes of conjugal situation, were interview. The interpretation followed the Analytical of Sense Method. Each couple presented his own proper comprehension mode for being with in conjugal situation. A comprehension of the mans mode of being, by the scrap in conjugal situation would be undertake like being among tension. The conjugality could be characterized by wobbliness least or minor among moments of fusion and moments of differentiation between the couples. Also pointing to a well being as the sense direction to be with the other. The participants elaboration of experience made possible to show how culture articulates with a clinical existential dimension and the culture towards the contemporaneous mans mode of being as being-in-the world- with-others by being oneself. The contribution of this work is introduce the difference like possibility by being oneself including the collective and the others