Impact Of Husbands Research Articles

Impact of husband and wife shareholdings on audit fees

This paper examines the impact of family firms' husband and wife shareholding on audit fees using family firms listed in A-share companies from 2002-2021 as a sample. The findings show that family firms' husband-wife shareholding significantly reduces audit fees. Further analysis shows that the effect of family firms' husband-wife shareholding on audit fees is more significant in companies with longer listing years and family firms with smaller losses. The mechanism test reveals that husband-wife shareholding in family firms leads to the misappropriation of funds by major shareholders and protects the truthfulness of the company's financial statements and business activities, which in turn reduces the audit fee. This study provides new ideas and empirical support for the role of husband-wife shareholding in corporate governance of family firms.

Impact of husband’s social support for mothers of children with autism in India

Aim of the study: The main aim of the study is to investigate husband’s social support for mother of children with autism. Method: Interview was conducted for 20 mother participants who were married and having children with autism aged between 4-15 years. Data collected was analyzed by using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. Results: The data analysis was divided in five domains. First, the impact on marriage relationship; second, husband’s role in parenting children with autism; third, mother’s perception regarding husband’s social support; fourth, indicated factors influencing husband social supports; and fifth the result explored the effect of husband’s social support for mother. The discussion and limitations of the present study has been considered. Application: The findings highlight the areas for rehabilitation professionals who should also focus on the relationship pf parents for better improvement of the child and family.

Impact of Husbands’ Healthcare Decision Making on Women’s Future Intention of Using Contraceptives in Bangladesh

The use of contraceptive is important for the reduction of maternal mortality, child mortality and to slow down the high population growth rate. The central objective of this study is to examine the association between husbands‟ involvement with healthcare decision making and women‟s future intention of using contraceptives. Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), 2014 data is used for this purpose. To evaluate the association overall and stratified binary logistic regression models are employed as well as the odds ratios (OR) along with their 95% confidence intervals are specified. The adjusted effect of overall model shows that husband‟s involvement with healthcare decision making is significantly negatively associated (OR=0.82, 95% CI: 0.70, 0.95) with women‟s intention of using contraceptives. The adjusted effects of stratified models also demonstrate that the association is significantly negative among women in rural area, from middle income families, who are Muslim, having more than two living children, having current age 35 to 49, who are unemployed, whose husbands are 1 to 5 years older and secondary educated. These findings can help to address the men‟s role in family planning and to increase the current contraceptive prevalence rate in Bangladesh.
 Dhaka Univ. J. Sci. 68(2): 121-127, 2020 (July)

No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions

AbstractObjectiveThis study examines whether the impact of husbands' involvement in childcare and housework on wives' fertility intentions varies by wives' education in Taiwan.BackgroundRecent research has pointed to the positive influence of a more egalitarian division of labor on wives' fertility intentions, yet existing literature often fails to examine educational variations in such linkages.MethodThis paper analyzed reports of time spent on domestic work (i.e., housework and childcare) for both spouses in the 2016 Women's Marriage, Fertility, and Employment Survey. The analytical sample included all married respondents with at least one child. Regression models and counterfactual analyses were adopted.ResultsThe findings showed that husbands of tertiary‐educated wives shared more housework and childcare. Furthermore, wives' fertility intentions beyond parity‐one increased with more input from husbands in helping with childcare, but not housework sharing. This positive childcare‐sharing effect was particularly salient among tertiary‐educated wives—who tended to be more economically empowered and to have higher expectations for gender equality at home. Finally, counterfactual analyses using a propensity score matching method indicated that non‐tertiary‐educated wives would not increase their fertility intentions even if they had received more help from husbands.ConclusionSuch educational variations have been little explored in past theory and research. Pro‐natalist policies aiming to boost fertility will likely attain optimal effectiveness if different combinations of parental‐leave and financial aid packages are offered to women with varying education. This study also contributes to the limited research on how division of labor affects fertility intentions in East Asia.

The impact of husbands' involvement in goal‐setting training on women's empowerment: First evidence from an intervention among female microfinance borrowers in Sri Lanka

AbstractOffering women access to microcredit and business training is a prominent approach to stimulate women's empowerment. Whereas men seem to profit from business training, women do not. We adjusted a goal‐setting training session on the basis of women's needs in collaboration with a women organization in Sri Lanka. We invited female microfinance borrowers and their husbands to the training as both parties should be involved to change existing gender roles with respect to their income‐generating activity. We investigated the impact of the training on goal‐setting skills, self‐esteem, and the couples' interaction in a subsequent task. In two field experiments, female borrowers and their husbands (nstudy1 = 68; nstudy2 = 76) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (a) goal‐setting training and setting goals as couple, (b) goal‐setting training and setting goals individually, or (c) no training (control condition). Participation in the training increased women's SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time bound) goal‐setting skills. We coded couples' interactions in a subsequent decision‐making task to assess signs of women's empowerment. Descriptively, we found some initial evidence of increased women's empowerment in the interaction (Study 2). We critically discuss results and how gendered power imbalances may need to be addressed to stimulate social change towards gender equity.

Impact of Husband’s Participation in Antenatal Care on the Use of Skilled Birth Attendant

Alternative approaches are needed to address the issues of reproductive health, one of which is by increasing participation of men on women’s sexual and reproductive health. This study aimed to investigate the impact of husband’s participation in antenatal care on the use of skilled birth attendant after controlling socio-demographic characteristics. Samples were 4,000 women aged 15 – 49 years who had their last childbirth in the past year before the survey drawn from 2012 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey. The study used binary logistic regression model to identify the impact of husband’s participation in antenatal care on the use of skilled birth attendant after controlling socio-demographic and maternal characteristics. The odds after controlling other factors indicated that women whose husbands attended at least one antenatal care visit were more likely to use skilled birth attendants than those whose husbands did not attend. In conclusion, husband’s participation, through attending antenatal visit, positively affects the use of skilled birth attendant by women during delivery. Abstrak Pendekatan alternatif diperlukan untuk mengatasi persoalan kesehatan reproduksi, salah satunya dengan meningkatkan partisipasi laki-laki pada kesehatan reproduksi perempuan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menelusuri dampak partisipasi suami dalam pelayanan antenatal pada penggunaan tenaga persalinan terlatih setelah mengontrol karakteristik sosial demografi. Sampel sebanyak 4.000 perempuan berusia 15 – 49 tahun yang memiliki persalinan terakhir pada tahun lalu sebelum survei diambil dari Survei Demografi dan Kesehatan Indonesia tahun 2012. Penelitian menggunakan model regresi logistik biner untuk mengidentifikasi dampak partisipasi suami dalam pelayanan antenatal pada penggunaan tenaga persalinan terlatih setelah mengontrol karakteristik ibu dan sosial demografi. Peluang setelah mengontrol faktor lainnya mengindikasikan perempuan yang suaminya datang setidaknya satu kali kunjungan pelayanan antenatal lebih berpeluang menggunakan tenaga persalinan terlatih dibandingkan yang suaminya tidak datang. Sebagai kesimpulan, partisipasi suami dengan berkunjung ke pelayanan antenatal secara positif berdampak pada penggunaan tenaga persalinan terlatih oleh perempuan selama bersalin.

The Impact of Husbands' Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Participation in a Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention on Spouses' Lives and Relationships With Their Partners.

A prostate cancer diagnosis affects the patient and his spouse. Partners of cancer patients are often the first to respond to the demands related to their husband's illness and thus are likely to be the most supportive individuals available to the patients. It is therefore important to examine how spouses react and handle their husband's prostate cancer diagnosis. The aim of this study was to explore how the prostate cancer diagnosis and the participation in their partners' behavioral lifestyle intervention program influenced the spouses' life, their relationship with their partner, and how they handle the situation. Interviews were recorded with 8 spouses of potential low-risk prostate cancer patients on active surveillance as part of a clinical self-management lifestyle trial. We identified 3 phases that the spouses went through: feeling insecure about their situation, coping strategies to deal with these insecurities, and feeling reassured. The framework of a clinical trial should include mobilizing spousal empowerment so that they can take on an active and meaningful role in relation to their husband's disease. The observations here substantiate that the framework of active surveillance in combination with a lifestyle intervention in 1 specific prostate cancer clinical trial can mobilize spousal empowerment. Creating well-designed clinical patient programs that actively involve the spouse appears to promote empowerment (meaning, self-efficacy, positive impact, and self-determination) in spouses. Spousal participation in clinical patient programs can give spouses relief from anxieties while recognizing them as a vital support for their husband.

Impact of husband's attitude towards menopause on severity of menopausal symptoms among women in India

Background Menopause impinges on both biological and social attributes of women hence it is recognized as a crucial public health problem. Menopausal health of women is also influenced by the social environment in which they are entrenched. Hence the objective of our study was to find the attitude of husbands towards menopause and its potential social determinants and how in turn husband's attitude towards menopause has an impact on severity of menopausal symptoms …

The Moderating Role of Empathy in the Work–Family Crossover Process Between Chinese Dual-Earner Couples

Crossover refers to the interpersonal process that occurs when stress or strain experienced by one person affects the level of strain of another person in the same social environment. This study examined the moderating role of empathy (empathic concern and perspective taking) in the relationship between one partner’s work–family interface (work–family conflict [WFC] and work–family enrichment [WFE]) and the other partner’s outcome variables (psychological strain and marital satisfaction) in a sample of 361 Chinese dual-earner couples. Moderated actor-partner interdependence model analyses showed that wives’ perspective taking buffered the impact of husbands’ WFC on wives’ psychological strain, as well as strengthened the relationship between husbands’ WFE and wives’ marital satisfaction. Wives’ empathic concern reinforced the relationship between husbands’ WFE and wives’ marital satisfaction. The findings add to the literature by providing insight into the mechanisms responsible for the direct crossover of work–family experiences.

The impact of husband’s job loss on partners’ mental health

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of job loss on family mental well-being. The negative income shock can affect the mental health status of the individual who directly experiences such displacement, as well as the psychological well-being of his partner; also, job loss may have a significantly detrimental effect on life satisfaction, self-esteem and on the individual’s perceived role in society. This analysis is based on a sample of married and cohabitating couples from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. In order to correct for the possible endogeneity of job loss, data from employment histories is utilised and redundancies (different from dismissals) in declining industries are used as an indicator of exogenous job loss. Results show evidence that couples in which the husband experiences a job loss are more likely to experience poor mental health.

Impact of Husbands’ Participation in Antenatal Health Education Services on Maternal Health Knowledge

A randomized controlled trial was designed to test the impact of involving husbands in antenatal health education on women's maternal health knowledge. Total 442 women receiving antenatal services at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal were randomized into three groups: women who attended education sessions with their husbands, women who attended education sessions alone, and women who attended no education sessions (controls). At baseline and after delivery, women's maternal health knowledge and change in knowledge levels were compared between the groups. Compared to control group women, women educated with husbands increased their knowledge scores by an average of 0.61 points (95% CI=0.32-0.89, P<0.001), while women educated alone increased their scores by only 0.34 points (95% CI=0.04-0.65, P<0.05). Women educated with partners could identify more pregnancy complications and family planning methods than women in both other groups. These findings suggest that women learn and retain the most information when they are educated with their partners.

Impact of Husband’s Violence Against Their Wives on Children As Experienced by a Sample of United Arab Emirates Married Women

Violence practiced by husbands against their wives is a common phenomenon all over the world. Because there are no sufficient statistics or data about husband’s violent behaviour towards their wives and its impact on their children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this study took a sample of married women from the UAE. The sample included 128 married female university students. A reliable and valid questionnaire was given to the sample. The study indicated the following results: 1- Violence is a common practice in the UAE as it is all over the world. However, its rates may be lower; only three of every ten UAE women are subject to violence in one way or another. The most common forms that violence takes are abusing, insulting and confining women to their homes. Beating is not so common as a form of violence and torturing in the sense of causing bruises or wounds is rare. 2- Husbands who used violence with their wives were at least ten years older. 3- Wives who were subject to violence reported that such practices were repeated within less than a month. 4- Reasons for violence against wives include the wife’s disrespectful talking to her husband; the husband’s taking drugs; or the wife’s disobedience. 5- Children always express their fear and react with weeping and crying when they see their mothers abused. In some cases, children may try to defend their mothers, and beating a mother in front of her children causes fear, panic, weeping and crying for those children. This may have a negative psychological impact on the children for one-day period. If a mother is injured or wounded as a result of this beating, this impact would last for months or years. 6- Husbands may insult and abuse their wives for economic reasons; for neglecting their house affairs; for their disobedience; or when a husband takes drugs. Husbands sometimes beat their wives for economic reasons; for their indecent way of talking to their husbands; or when a husband takes drugs, and husbands also may confine their wives to their homes when they find their wives preoccupied with outdoors activities (parties, visits and so on).

Impact of husbands' involuntary job loss on wives' mental health, among older adults.

This study estimates the consequences of older husbands' involuntary job loss for their wives' mental health. Using longitudinal data from the 1992, 1994, and 1996 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, multivariate regression models were estimated to measure the impact of older husbands' involuntary job loss on wives' mental health. We created two longitudinal data sets of two waves each to use in our analysis. The first data set, or period, combined Waves 1 and 2 of the Health and Retirement Study and described the 1992-1994 experience of spouse pairs in our sample. It included the wives of 55 husbands who experienced involuntary job loss between these survey dates and a comparison group of wives of 730 continuously employed husbands. The second data set described the 1994-1996 experience of couples. In particular, it included the wives of an additional 38 husbands who were displaced from their jobs between Waves 2 and 3, and a comparison group of wives of 425 husbands who were continuously employed from 1994 to 1996. Husbands' involuntary job loss did not have a statistically significant effect on wives' mental health. We found no evidence that changes in husbands' depressive symptoms modified the effect of his job loss on wives' mental health. In the first period only, the effect of husbands' job loss on wives' mental health was more pronounced for wives who were more financially satisfied at baseline. There is limited evidence among this cohort that husbands' job loss increases wives' subsequent depressive symptoms. However, the effect of husbands' job loss on wives' mental health appears to be magnified when wives report being financially satisfied pre-job loss. This suggests that, for subgroups of older couples, mental health services specifically targeted at displaced men should also be made available to wives.

The Impact of Husbands' Retirement on Wives' Marital Quality

ABSTRACT Recent studies view retirement as a family transition that affects others in the close family circle, as well as the retiree, and is a process that occurs over time, and not as a single event. It therefore behooves us to learn more about how husbands' retirement affects the women with whom male retirees share their lives. Furthermore, most previous research has studied the wives of retirees using cross-sectional designs. In general, findings have indicated that husbands' retirement has little effect on wives' marital quality. This study is an advance over much of the previous research in that we use a longitudinal design. We have examined wives' assessments of marital quality including contextual life changes before their husbands' retirements, and have compared the assessments of the same wives following their husbands' retirements. To study these phenomena, we used data from the Normative Aging Study, administering the DAS to 61 wives prior and subsequent to husbands' retirement. We used means of the DAS scores and sub-scale scores at baseline and compared these scores at Time 2 by paired t-test. Positive change in the “cohesion” sub-scale of wives' DAS scores before to after husbands' retirement suggests that shared activities increased after retirement, and that the increase was pleasing to the wives. Multiple regression analysis found that income change, and change in husbands' health contributed most to marital quality change among wives, with changes in wives' employment status also contributing. To specify retirement-context conditions including the subscales of satisfaction, cohesion, consensus and affection, additional multiple regression models indicated continuity in wives' marital quality scores pre-to post-husbands' retirement. Implications of the findings for practice and future research are discussed.

The Impact of Husbands' and Wives' Relative Earnings on Marital Disruption

In the last several decades a shift has occurred in the relative contributions of married women to household earnings. Yet we know little about the impact of relative earnings of husbands and wives on the likelihood of marital disruption. This study estimates a discrete-time hazard model using data on first married couples from the 1986-1989 waves of the [U.S.] Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The relative earnings of husbands and wives are a significant predictor of marital disruption although the relationship is nonlinear. We suggest this nonlinear effect is linked to the varying economic circumstances of different groups of couples. (EXCERPT)

The Fertility and Language Characteristics of Mexican-American and Non-Hispanic Husbands and Wives

In this article cultural and socioeconomic explanations of the effects of language characteristics on the fertility of Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white couples are considered. The impact of husbands' as well of wives' characteristics are estimated on the fertility of a sample drawn from 1980 U.S. census data, using a dynamic model for fertility. The pattern of effects presented is consistent with a cultural explanation that includes the relevence of pronatalist values to the higher fertility of Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans. The greater detail provided by this method also results in the identification of a subset of English-speaking Mexican-American couples who appear to be using a very low fertility strategy and a subset of non-Hispanic whites whose higher fertility is also tied to language characteristics.

The Psychological Well-Being of Older, Recent Widows

The impact of husband's death on the psychological well-being of 226 older widows was examined. Respondents were 60 to 89 years of age and had been widowed from 7 to 21 months at the time of interview. Using multiple regression analysis it was determined that 19 selected variables accounted for approximately 22% of the variance in positive affect and 18% of the variance in negative affect. Higher levels of positive affect were related to widows' religious involvement, number of siblings, and support from children and their families. Negative affect was more often associated with other deaths (in addition to that of husband), housing dissatisfaction, and a history of employment outside the home during marriage. Additional research is called for in light of the increasing numbers and potential vulnerabilities of older women who are recently widowed.

Household Decision Behavior: The Impact of Husbands' and Wives' Sex Role Orientation

This study examines the impact of sex role orientation on the outcome of a family home purchase decision. A relatively strong relationship is found between sex role orientation (SRO) and the degree of household influence, preference agreement, mode of conflict resolution, and decision outcome. Finally, it is found that household decision behavior is better explained in the context of a theoretical network of systemic household relationships rather than through a series of bivariate family relationships.