The Gendered Meanings of Assets for Divorce |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Jeffrey?DewEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, 542 Cabell Hall, P.O. Box 400766, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4766, USA |
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Abstract: | Scholars identified a negative relationship between assets and divorce decades ago, but the mechanisms behind this relationship
remain unknown. Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 4,721 couples), this study compared three mechanisms that might link assets and divorce. Non-proportional Cox hazard models
indicated that two of the three mechanisms explained the relationship between assets and divorce. Wives’ marital satisfaction
and their perceptions of their hypothetical post-divorce standard of living completely mediated the relationship between assets
and divorce. The relationship between assets and divorce was not related to husbands’ characteristics.
Portions of this study were presented at the 2005 annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations. |
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Keywords: | Assets Commitment Divorce Gender Marital satisfaction |
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