Role Strain and Depression in Two-Job Families.

The literature concerning dual-career family stress and coping is reviewed. Sources of dual-career strain are delineated, and the coping patterns employed by couples in managing the stress are summarized. Although acknowledging stressful aspects of dual-career living, it was found that most participants defined their lifestyle positively. Achieving a balance between the advantages and disadvantages of the lifestyle appears to be the overriding concern of most dual-career couples. Some implications for family practitioners are discussed.

Dual-Career Family Stress and Coping: A Literature Review.

Increasingly, over the last decade, dual-career couples have met the mobility demands of each spouse's career by deciding to maintain separate residences. This study analyzes the rewards and strains associated with the lifestyle of dual-career couples who live apart. Analysis of interviews with 43 spouses, representing 28 marriages, suggests that the heritage of traditional marriage norms aft~cts spouses' views o/ftheir own roles in these nontraditional marriages. A distinction between two types (mainlyv younger "adjusting" and older "established" couples) is helpful in sorting out ways in which traditional marital norms frame evaluations of spousal roles in these relationships.

Dual-Career Couples Who Live Apart: Two Types.

A review of the literature indicates few concepts to assess dual-career couples during counseling. Limitations of past definitions and theories of career development are discussed in the context of the complexity of the dual-career life-style. New definitions are proposed to increase knowledge about the dual-career couple as a special group in career development. A preliminary assessment model is presented focusing on the normative dilemmas of dual-career couples. Develop-mental areas and normative dilemmas in careers, gender roles, and marriage-family are discussed in the context of 23 career transitions. Normative themes related to dual-career couple dilemmas are then enumerated. The assessment model promotes greater understanding of how career events affect interpersonal-family relationships as well as how these relationships affect a couple's career development. Implications of the assessment model for counseling dual-career couples and conducting future research are discussed.

Dual-Career Couples' Career Transitions and Normative Dilemmas A Preliminary Assessment Model

Enhancing coping behaviors in at-risk populations: The effects of time-management instruction and social support in women from dual-earner families.

The dual-career family is an emergent family form in our society that offers new sources of satisfaction. A t the same time, the dual-career life-style also presents new types of problems for families. This articles is an attempt to sensitize family practitioners to some of the problematic aspects of the dual-career life-style. Suggestions are made for strategies practitioners can use to assist dual-career families in coping effectively with the constraints and problems of their life-style.

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Priscilla White

Papers

The Dual-Career Couple: Constraints and Supports