Abstract
In Iran, dual-career couples face many stressors due to their demands of balancing work and family. Moreover, the experience of this stress can negatively affect partners’ martial quality. Recent studies have shown the positive impact of dyadic coping on well-being; however, a majority of this research has been conducted with Western cultures. As such, there is a dearth of literature on understanding how supportive and common dyadic coping may have a positive association with work-family stress for couples in Iran. Using a sample of 206 heterosexual dual-career couples from Iran, this study examines the associations between job stress and marital quality, and possible moderating effects of common and perceived partner supportive dyadic coping. As predicted, job stress was negatively associated with marital quality, and this association with further moderated by gender, such that women who experienced greater job stress also reported lower marital quality. Additionally, dyadic coping moderated the association between job stress and marital quality. Common dyadic coping attenuated the negative association between job stress and marital quality. The findings shed light on the possible beneficial effects of teaching supportive and common dyadic coping techniques to dual-career couples in Iran.
Highlights
Iran is in transition from a society that once focused on agricultural economics to one that is focused on industrial economy, urbanization, mass media development, and public education (Askari-Nodoushan et al, 2009)
Given the robust positive associations between dyadic coping and relational outcomes found across cultures (Falconier et al, 2016), we examine how supportive and common dyadic coping may moderate the association between job stress and marital quality
Gender was included in the models to test whether the associations between job stress and marital quality differed between husbands and wives
Summary
Iran is in transition from a society that once focused on agricultural economics to one that is focused on industrial economy, urbanization, mass media development, and public education (Askari-Nodoushan et al, 2009). Family values, structures, and norms have undergone wide-ranging changes due to the shifts in the structure of the Irian society, because of industrialization, urbanization and the expansion of mass media, as well as cultural and value changes, individualism from the dissemination of Western ideas and values (Azadarmaki et al, 2012). These changes have led to shifts in the structure of societies, which can be best observed in changes in the cultural ideals of individualism (Askari-Nodoushan et al, 2009). The participation of women in the workforce has caused fundamental changes in family and occupational structures, including the increase in dual-career couples (Schaer et al, 2008), so that it has gradually become the dominant model of marital life in most countries (Haddock et al, 2006)
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