No Fun Anymore: Leisure and Marital Quality across the Transition to Parenthood

Autor/inn/en	Claxton, Amy; Perry-Jenkins, Maureen
Titel	No Fun Anymore: Leisure and Marital Quality across the Transition to Parenthood
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 70 (2008) 1, S.28-43 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2007.00459.x
Schlagwörter	Spouses; Leisure Time; Marital Satisfaction; Conflict; Intimacy; Working Class; Employed Parents; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehepartner; Freizeit; Konflikt; Intimität; Arbeiterklasse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	This study examines changes in leisure patterns across the transition to parenthood for dual-earner, working-class couples, as well as the relationship between leisure and marital quality. To this end, 147 heterosexual couples were interviewed across the transition to parenthood. Findings indicate that during the transition to parenthood, husbands and wives experience an initial decline in leisure, followed by a gradual incline after the wife's return to work. Overall, wives who reported more shared leisure prenatally also reported more marital love and less conflict 1 year later. Husbands with more independent leisure prenatally reported less love and more conflict 1 year later. Conclusions suggest leisure time is integral to well-functioning marriages, with effects lasting throughout the first year of parenthood. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10