Spousal Problems Research Articles

Exploring the Cultural Model of Social Stress Among Andean Women in the Peruvian Highlands

Abstract We conducted research to explore how women in the highlands perceive and identify stress within the cultural context of the Andes. Using cultural domain analysis, consisting of free listing and pile sorting, we demonstrate the shared cultural model of stress among Andean women. The project describes different types of stress that impact women including economic insecurity, lack of access to education, and spousal problems. We demonstrate what this research tells us about how Andean women organize sources of stress. The practical implications of this study involve researchers and practitioners considering social factors present in the lives of Andean highland women. The research can improve discussions about how these issues influence individual social stress levels.

The Work–Family Conflict: Evidence from the Recent Decade and Lines of Future Research

This contribution adopts an economic perspective to summarize what we learned in the last decade about the work–family conflict (WFC) and, primarily, where we go from here. On the basis of recent labor, demographic and socio-economic changes, and the use of both data and economic methods, we have identified a number of important topics. First, the relationship between the WFC and the kinds of family, with specific attention to motherhood/fatherhood. Later, the interrelations between the WFC and spousal problems or different satisfaction issues. We then analyze the implications of the WFC for policy and benefit issues, and, finally, the relationship between the WFC and dispositional characteristics. The future of the research should first address the limitations of the existing literature. The complete lack of longitudinal data makes it impossible to derive causal effects, with only correlations being possible. Another future avenue is the elaboration of cross-cultural papers. An interesting topic to be covered is to focus on the couple, rather than the individual, with different couples by race, religion…having implications for intra-family negotiation. Another line is to examine intergenerational issues that arise as a consequence of the delay in the nest-leaving of children and, at the same time, the presence of grandparents in the home.

Import of family and peers in a writer’s life

A writer anywhere must have roots and familial relationships. In a general sense, it is the energy derived from friends, family or society that drives the human spirit. A major role the family has in the life of a writer is giving him or her space. What this means is that a literaryfriendly family will not come between the writer and his/her writing. When he/she is engaged with writing, the writer’s family excuses him/ her from domestic and other duties. It is also beneficial when the writer is surrounded by a wife/husband and children who are wonderful readers. It is the relevance of the family that inspired this research. The paper investigates how culture, society and the family are significant in the life of every man or woman. It focuses on the experiences of writers in their home countries and overseas. The author discovered that writers in 17th century Europe worked closely together. The practice has hardly caught on among Nigerian writers. The writer could hardly find instances to prove otherwise. It is intended in this work, therefore, to highlight this shortcoming and to show how it contributes to the attainment of desired goals in the writer’s literary endeavours. The bulk of the data for this study was collected through listening to stories of writers and also reading various comments in newspapers and other publications.
 Keywords: Language and culture, Family and peers, Pedagogy, Spousal problems, Writers’ life

Spousal Problems and Family-to-Work Conflict Among Employed US Adults

Using data from the 2011 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States Refreshed Sample (N = 980), this paper examines how three types of spousal problems-poor physical health, poor mental health, and behavioral disorders-are related to respondents' family-to-work conflict (FWC) among employed adults aged 25-61. Results suggest that all three types of their spouses' problems were related to respondents' higher FWC, with their spouses' poor mental health having the strongest association. These associations were not significant after controlling for respondents' role overload, financial strain, and relationship strain. There were few variations by respondents' gender and parental status in these associations. Relationship strain played the primary role as a mediator, which was stronger for men than women. These findings support the idea of stress proliferation, suggesting that one's problems can be linked to a series of other stressors including one's spouse's FWC.

“Thanks to the Internet, We Remain a Family”: ICT Domestication by Elderly Immigrants and their Families in Israel

ABSTRACTIn addition to coping with intergenerational and spousal problems related to aging and/or immigration, elderly immigrants in Israel are also often burdened with domesticating information and communication technologies (ICTs). Thus, the goal of this study is to explore how relationships within the elderly immigrant’s family are manifested in a home computer context and to determine the roles that domestication of the relevant technologies plays in their family life. This qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews with 26 elderly users who immigrated from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel about 20 years ago. The findings show that ICT domestication and family dynamics are complex, interrelated processes: Technologies have dramatically changed the elderly immigrants’ family situations, yet immigrants have accorded these technologies unique meaning, adapting them to respond to their family needs and negotiating ICT domestication as a means of discussing and rebuilding family communication.