Correlates of Conjugal Power: A Five Culture Analysis of Adolescent Perceptions

Abstract

The study of conjugal power centers around two broad theoretical approaches: resource theory and ideology theory. This secondary analysis of self-reports from purposive samples of Catholic male and female adolescents from five cultural contexts (New York; St. Paul; Bonn, Germany; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Seville, Spain; Merida, Yucatan) attempts to incorporate both perspectives by comparing the relationships between selected resource and ideological variables across a continuum of putative traditionalism. In each cultural context, males attribute more power to father than do females. There is slight support for the traditionalism continuum (mainly Latin versus non-Latin), and the predicted relationships between husband’s occupation and wife’s employment outside the home and the relative power of the husband. The thinness of the findings point to the critical need for increased theoretical and methodological work for an adequate understanding of conjugal power.

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