Study Kamp Dush et al. (2008): study US 1980
- Public
- Married people, USA, followed 20 years 1980-2000
- Survey name
- US- BRFSS 2005
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 962
- Non Response
- 53%
- Assessment
- Interview: telephone (CATI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Equal decision making
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- 1: 50%
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on question: Överall, considering the kind of decisions you two make, does your spouse more often have the final word, or do you
1: Response that refered to compromised or shared decision -makimg
0: Dominance by one spouse
Observed Relation with Happiness
b-fix controled for:
- T1-T6 trajectory of marital satisfaction
- stable high
- stable middler
- low and declining
- T1 family income
- T1 use of public assistance
- T1 wife employed full time
- T1 wife extended hours
- T1 children below age 18
- T1 husband employed
- T1 Gender relations
- husband share of household work
- shared decision making
- T1 values
- religiousness
- traditional gender attitude
- traditional marriage attitude