The tripartite nature of marital commitment: Personal, moral, and structural reasons to stay married

被引:173
作者
Johnson, MP
Caughlin, JP
Huston, TL
机构
[1] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[2] Univ Nebraska, Dept Commun Studies, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[3] Univ Texas, Dept Human Ecol, Austin, TX 78712 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY | 1999年 / 61卷 / 01期
关键词
commitment; marriage; stability;
D O I
10.2307/353891
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
This study assesses the empirical viability of Johnson's (1991) commitment framework. The core principle is that commitment, rather than a unitary phenomenon, involves three distinct experiences: wanting to stay married feeling morally obligated to stay married and feeling constrained to stay married, Using data from a sample of married couples, we show that direct measures of the three experiences are not highly correlated with each other; that a measure of so-called global commitment is a function primarily: if not exclusively of personal commitment, that the three direct measures of the experiences of commitment are associated for the must part with the components of each type as hypothesized in the commitment framework, and that the three types of commitment and their components are not associated in the same way with other variables.
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页码:160 / 177
页数:18
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