Spillover Between Marital Quality and Job Satisfaction: Long-Term Patterns and Gender Differences

We used data from a 12-year panel survey of a nationally representative sample of married individuals (not couples) and structural equation modeling to investigate the process of spillover between marital quality (satisfaction and discord) and job satisfaction among married individuals. We considere...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 2003-05, Vol.65 (2), p.482-495
Main Authors: Rogers, Stacy J., May, Dee C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Children
Employment
Family studies
Family Work Relationship
Gender
Gender differences
Gender differentiation
Gender roles
Husbands
Individual Differences
Interpersonal Conflict
Job Satisfaction
Marital conflict
marital quality
Marital Relations
Marital Satisfaction
Marital Status
Marriage
Men
Modeling
negative spillover
Of General Interest
positive spillover
Predictive Measurement
Psychological Patterns
Sex Differences
Sexuality. Marriage. Family relations
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Spouses
United States of America
Wives
work/family
Working women
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Summary:We used data from a 12-year panel survey of a nationally representative sample of married individuals (not couples) and structural equation modeling to investigate the process of spillover between marital quality (satisfaction and discord) and job satisfaction among married individuals. We considered three questions: whether job satisfaction and marital quality are related over the long term, whether influence flows primarily from work to family or if there is a pattern of mutual effects between job satisfaction and marital quality, and whether job satisfaction and marital quality are related in similar ways for married women and married men over the long term. We found that marital quality and job satisfaction are related over the long term and that marital quality is the more influential of these domains. We found evidence of both positive and negative spillover from marital quality to job satisfaction over the long term. Specifically, increases in marital satisfaction were significantly related to increases in job satisfaction, and increases in marital discord were significantly related to declines in job satisfaction. Finally, our results indicated that these processes operate similarly for married women and married men.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00482.x