TY - JOUR
T1 - The Personality of Young Adult Couples and Wives' Work Patterns
AU - Helson, Ravenna
AU - Roberts, Brent
PY - 1992/9
Y1 - 1992/9
N2 - ABSTRACT The influence of personality in 63 couples at the time of family formation on wives' work patterns 15 years later was examined in variable‐centered and person/couple‐centered ways. Four factor dimensions on the Adjective Check List assessed personality. Work patterns were assessed with measures of type, amount, and status of work and with schematic work narratives describing characters and plots abstracted from wives' mid‐life data. Hierarchical regression analyses showed individuality of husbands to affect work outcomes after wives' college‐age goals, their young adult personality, and the duration of marriages were taken into account. Conjoint high‐low patterns of individuality in 34 couples were associated with different schematic work stories. These stories show distinctive personality and relational correlates at age 27. They flesh out and qualify hypotheses that individualistic partners would be open to women's careers and would show revealing strategies of combining self‐ and other interests in the transition to parenthood.
AB - ABSTRACT The influence of personality in 63 couples at the time of family formation on wives' work patterns 15 years later was examined in variable‐centered and person/couple‐centered ways. Four factor dimensions on the Adjective Check List assessed personality. Work patterns were assessed with measures of type, amount, and status of work and with schematic work narratives describing characters and plots abstracted from wives' mid‐life data. Hierarchical regression analyses showed individuality of husbands to affect work outcomes after wives' college‐age goals, their young adult personality, and the duration of marriages were taken into account. Conjoint high‐low patterns of individuality in 34 couples were associated with different schematic work stories. These stories show distinctive personality and relational correlates at age 27. They flesh out and qualify hypotheses that individualistic partners would be open to women's careers and would show revealing strategies of combining self‐ and other interests in the transition to parenthood.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00921.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00921.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 1403596
AN - SCOPUS:0026913642
VL - 60
SP - 575
EP - 597
JO - Journal of Personality
JF - Journal of Personality
SN - 0022-3506
IS - 3
ER -