TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptions of a housespouse
T2 - The effects of sex, economic productivity, and subject background variables
AU - Rosenwasser, Shirley M.
AU - Gonzales, M. Hope
AU - Adams, Vikki
PY - 1985/6
Y1 - 1985/6
N2 - Two studies were performed investigating college students’ attitudes toward male and female housespouses whose primary duties were child-care and major household tasks and whose economic contributions were earnings from writing. Introductory psychology students read a descriptive paragraph and then evaluated the housespouse on semantic differential scales. In addition, the following subject background variables were investigated: sex role typing in Experiment 1; and authoritarianism, parental atypical household duties, and maternal employment history in Experiment 2. Subject impressions were less positive in describing male homemakers, and homemakers of either sex were viewed more positively when more successfully pursuing activities beyond childcare and housekeeping. Androgynous subjects and subjects whose mothers had been employed evaluated housespouses more positively than other subjects. Housespouse age, subject sex, subject authoritarianism, and atypical parental duties were not significantly related to students’ perceptions of housespouses.
AB - Two studies were performed investigating college students’ attitudes toward male and female housespouses whose primary duties were child-care and major household tasks and whose economic contributions were earnings from writing. Introductory psychology students read a descriptive paragraph and then evaluated the housespouse on semantic differential scales. In addition, the following subject background variables were investigated: sex role typing in Experiment 1; and authoritarianism, parental atypical household duties, and maternal employment history in Experiment 2. Subject impressions were less positive in describing male homemakers, and homemakers of either sex were viewed more positively when more successfully pursuing activities beyond childcare and housekeeping. Androgynous subjects and subjects whose mothers had been employed evaluated housespouses more positively than other subjects. Housespouse age, subject sex, subject authoritarianism, and atypical parental duties were not significantly related to students’ perceptions of housespouses.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1985.tb00876.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1985.tb00876.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970353771
SN - 0361-6843
VL - 9
SP - 258
EP - 264
JO - Psychology of Women Quarterly
JF - Psychology of Women Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -