Journal Article
The Contribution of Marriage to the Psychological Well-Being of Males and Females
Norval D. Glenn
Journal of Marriage and Family
Vol. 37, No. 3 (Aug., 1975), pp. 594-600
Published
by: National Council on Family Relations
DOI: 10.2307/350523
https://www.jstor.org/stable/350523
Page Count: 7
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Abstract
Data from three recent U.S. national surveys corroborate earlier evidence indicating that married persons, as an aggregate, report substantially greater global happiness than any category of unmarried persons; and the difference, according to the data reported here, is greater for females than for males. Data from two of the surveys show similar levels of reported marital happiness for husbands and wives, and they show a stronger relationship of marital happiness to global happiness for the wives. On the basis of this evidence, Bernard's thesis that marriage is more beneficial to husbands than to wives is rejected. The data presented here can be reconciled with Bernard's data showing an unusual prevalence of symptoms of psychological stress among married women by the hypothesis that women, as a whole, exceed men in both the stress and the satisfaction they derive from marriage.
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