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The Number of Children in the Family and Gender of Marital Partner as Predictors of Marital Quality
Josip OBRADOVIĆ
Mira ČUDINA-OBRADOVIĆ
Sažetak
A research was performed with the aim to check whether the
number of children in the family could be a predictor of the
perception of marital quality of the marital partners. Two
independent, five control and one dependent variable were
defined. The independent variables were the number of
children in the family and gender of marital partner. The
control variables were defined as marriage duration, salary,
number of rooms in dwelling unit, economic stress and need
for economizing. The only dependent variable was defined
as marital quality. Five hundred and five marital couples
were included, as the sample of the City of Zagreb and
Zagreb metropolitan area, representative according to the
husband's educational level. The results show the number of
children to be a predictor of marital quality both for wives
and husbands before and after control for 5 covariates was
performed. The highest level of perceived marital quality was
obtained in the group without children, and no significant
difference was found between the group having one child
and the group with two and more children.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
20001
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2001.
Posjeta: 3.732 *