Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among business tensions, relationship conflict quality, and satisfaction with spouse for 206 farm business-owning couples. The Sustainable Family Business Model and the Family FIRO (Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation) model guided the path analysis. For both husbands and wives, locus of control was negatively related to business tensions; decision involvement discrepancy was positively related to relationship conflict quality; and business tensions were negatively related to relationship conflict quality. For husbands, relationship conflict quality was positively related to satisfaction with spouse; for wives, business tensions were negatively related to satisfaction with business-owning spouse.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 419-441 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Family and Economic Issues |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This material is based on work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, US Department of Agriculture under Agreement No. 95-37401-1820. Any opinion, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the US Department of Agriculture.
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- FIRO
- Family business
- Farm couples
- Relationship conflict
- Spousal satisfaction