{"title":"Entering a stepfamily: Children's experience of family reconstitution in Sweden 1970-2000","authors":"J. Turunen","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V23I2.5220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V23I2.5220","url":null,"abstract":"Eintritt in die Stieffamilie – Die Erfahrungen von Kindern mit Familienrekonstitution in Schweden zwischen 1970 und 2000","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122615977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the special issue on 'The dynamics of stepfamilies in cross-national perspective'","authors":"M. Kreyenfeld, V. Martin","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V23I2.5218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V23I2.5218","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the economic conditions of stepfamilies in Germany, the Russian Federation and France using data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The analysis shows that stepfamilies more often report economic hardship than nuclear families in France and Western Germany. Socio-demographic differences between family types – particularly the fact that stepfamilies tend to be larger families – explain the differences in economic well-being between families in France. For Western Germany, differences between nuclear and stepfamilies remain after controlling for socio-economic composition of different family types. For the Russian Federation and Eastern Germany, we do not find any statistically significant differences in economic well-being between stepfamilies and nuclear families. The major dividing line for these regions runs between single parents and other types of families.","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123863794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back to the kitchen? Gender role attitudes in 13 East European countries","authors":"É. Fodor, A. Balogh","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I3.4604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I3.4604","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the determinants of gender role opinions in 13 post-communist Eastern European societies using survey data from the project EUREQUAL. Our main findings consist of two parts. First, contrary to the expectations of scholars who emphasize the lack of gender/feminist consciousness in Eastern Europe, we argue that gender indeed is an important determinant of gender role opinions in post-communist societies: as elsewhere women express more liberal attitudes than men. Second, we argue that the interaction of other determinants of gender role opinions with gender also follows patterns described in the literature for more developed capitalist countries. In this respect, therefore, East European countries seem to fit the general trends of gender role opinion formation. As explanation we point to a connection between women’s material conditions and their gender role attitudes, not denying the importance of cultural difference – if primarily as exception – to this process. Keywords: gender, gender role attitudes, Central and Eastern Europe, post-communism, gender inequality ----- Zuruck in die Kuche? Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen in 13 osteuropaischen Landern Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel untersucht, auf Basis von Umfragedaten des EUREQUAL-Projektes, die Determinanten von Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen in 13 postkommunistischen osteuropaischen Gesellschaften. Unsere Hauptergebnisse bestehen aus zwei Teilen. Erstens: Wir legen dar, dass – entgegen den Erwartungen von Wissenschaftler(inne)n, die das Fehlen eines Gender- oder feministischen Bewusstseins betonen – dass Gender in postkommunistischen Gesellschaften tatsachlich eine wichtige Determinante der Meinungen uber die Geschlechterrollen ist: Wie auch anderswo bringen Frauen liberalere Einstellungen als Manner zum Ausdruck. Zweitens: Wir argumentieren, dass die Interaktion anderer Determinanten der Meinungen zu den Geschlechterrollen mit Gender gleichfalls den Mustern folgt, die in der Literatur im Bezug auf weiter entwickelte kapitalistische Gesellschaften beschrieben werden. In dieser Hinsicht scheinen die osteuropaischen Gesellschaften sich den allgemeinen Trends der Herausbildung von Meinungen zu den Geschlechterrollen anzugleichen. Zur Erklarung verweisen wir auf den Zusammenhang zwischen den materiellen Lebensbedingungen von Frauen und ihren Einstellungen zu den Geschlechterrollen, ohne jedoch die Bedeutsamkeit kultureller Unterschiede – wenn sie auch eher Ausnahmen sind – abzustreiten. Schlagworte: Gender, Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen, Zentral- und Osteuropa, Postkommunismus, Geschlechtergleichheit","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121243372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decisions concerning job-related spatial mobility and their impact on family careers in France and Germany","authors":"B. Collet, E. Bonnet","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I2.4026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I2.4026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Job-related spatial mobility raises questions about women’s and men’s professional life. It does not always accompany a specific job or a promotion; it may also arise as the consequence of being in a dual-career couple. We will study how the decision is handled by bi-active couples, compared to couples who live according to the more classical ‘male breadwinner model’, and how other socio-demographic factors, especially the presence of children, influence the decision in favour of mobility. We will compare data on France and Germany drawn from the European Survey Job Mobilities and Family Lives (2007) realised in six European countries. Women’s employment rates and family policies are not the same in the two countries. While France has for several years provided solutions to help women remain in the labour force while raising children, Germany only recently abandoned a mother-centred family policy which pushed women to stay at home while raising their children. Statistical data will be completed by results from two qualitative studies to see more precisely how job mobility is experienced concretely. One study was realised in France in 2006. Results from the other study in Germany in 2001 will be reported. Both place the accent on mobile people who spend several days a week away from home. A typology of ‘family careers’, developed in the French study and applied to the French and German data shows that couples differ with regard to the decision-making processes on mobility, which reveal different underlying partnership patterns. Keywords: job mobility, spatial mobility. France-Germany comparison, family career, mobility decision process, conjugal negotiation ----- Entscheidungen zu berufsbedingter raumlicher Mobilitat und ihre Auswirkungen auf Familienkarrieren in Frankreich und Deutschland Zusammenfassung Beruflich bedingte raumliche Mobilitat stellt die Frage nach der Erwerbsarbeit von Mannern und Frauen. Es geht dabei aber nicht nur um die Entscheidung fur einen bestimmten Beruf oder fur einen Karriereschritt. Mobilitat kann auch eine Folge von Doppelerwerbstatigkeit eines Paares sein. Wir gehen der Frage nach, wie die Entscheidung bei bi-aktiven Paaren im Verhaltnis zu mono-aktiven Paaren getroffen wird und inwieweit andere soziodemographische Faktoren, besonders die Anwesenheit von Kindern in der Familie, Mobilitatsentscheidungen beeinflussen. Wir vergleichen deutsche und franzosische Daten, die in einer europaischen in sechs Landern durchgefuhrten Studie Job Mobilities and Family Lives (2007) erhoben wurden. Die Erwerbstatigkeit von Frauen und die Familienpolitik sind in beiden Landern relativ unterschiedlich. Wahrend Frankreich schon seit Jahren Mutter mit konkreten Masnahmen unterstutzt, die es ermoglichen einer Erwerbstatigkeit nachzugehen, ist die Familienpolitik in Deutschland erst kurzlich von dem mutterzentrierten Modell abgekommen, dass Frauen darin unterstutzte zuhause zu bleiben und die Kinder zu erziehen. Die statistische ","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115611563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Walking the tightrope. Combining family life, career and job mobility","authors":"Detlev Lück","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I2.4027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I2.4027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article examines the ways in which job mobility affects the relationship between dual careers and parenthood and the ability of couples to realise both. Based on survey data from the project Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe for six countries (Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium), bivariate analyses compare ratios of couples with children and/or one or two careers between couples confronted with job mobility in the husband’s or wife’s job and those who have no such mobility. Multivariate analyses test the influence of job mobility and other relevant circumstances on female employment as well as on having children. Indicators measuring respondents’ subjective evaluation of the influences are reviewed to confirm the results. The results suggest that couples tend to be childless rather than give up one partner’s job if the two goals are incompatible. Job mobility, as with other unfavourable circumstances, reduces the ability of couples to combine both, and this ability is much more reduced if the woman is job mobile than if the man is. In addition, national context matters for level of compatibility and for strength of effects. Keywords: job mobility, spatial mobility, female employment, parenthood, balancing work and family lives ----- Drahtseilakte. Vereinbarkeit von Familie, Beruf und beruflicher Mobilitat Zusammenfassung Der Artikel untersucht den Einfluss beruflich bedingter Mobilitat auf das Verhaltnis von Doppelverdienern und Elternschaft und auf die Fahigkeit von Paaren, beides zu realisieren. Anhand von Umfragedaten des Projektes Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe fur sechs Lander (Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Polen, Schweiz, Belgien) vergleichen bivariate Analysen Paare, die entweder durch den Beruf des Mannes oder den der Frau mit Mobilitat konfrontiert sind, mit Paaren, die nicht davon betroffen sind, hinsichtlich der Anteile von Eltern, von Ein- und von Doppelverdiener-Paaren. Multivariate Analysen testen den Einfluss von beruflicher Mobilitat und anderen relevanten Bedingungen auf die Erwerbstatigkeit von Frauen sowie auf Elternschaft. Indikatoren werden gesichtet, die die Beurteilung der Befragten erfassen, um die Befunde zu erharten. Der Artikel kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Paare eher kinderlos bleiben als eine der beiden Erwerbstatigkeiten aufzugeben, wenn beides nicht miteinander vereinbar ist. Ahnlich wie andere nachteilige Umstande vermindert berufliche Mobilitat die Fahigkeit von Paaren, beides zu vereinbaren. Wenn die Frau beruflich mobil ist, ist der Effekt weitaus starker, als wenn der Mann mobil ist. Auch der nationale Kontext macht einen Unterschied: sowohl fur den Grad der Vereinbarkeit im Allgemeinen wie auch fur die Starke der Effekte. Schlagworte: berufliche Mobilitat, raumliche Mobilitat, Frauenerwerbstatigkeit, Elternschaft, Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131806145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kinderkosten und Familiengründung: erste Befunde einer Prüfung der Neuen Haushaltsökonomie unter Verwendung von Paardaten","authors":"D. Klaus","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3595","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Am Beispiel der Familiengrundung wird die empirische Relevanz der Neuen Haushaltsokonomie (NHE) untersucht. Dabei geht dieser Beitrag in zweierlei Hinsicht uber die ubliche Anwendung dieses Ansatzes hinaus: Einerseits wird, parallel zur Opportunitatenkostenhypothese, die oft vernachlassigte Einkommenshypothese berucksichtigt. Andererseits wird das in diesem Erklarungszusammenhang zentrale Konzept der Kinderkosten nicht, wie ublich, uber bildungs- oder erwerbsbezogene Indikatoren operationalisiert, sondern uber die subjektive Einschatzung der personlichen Relevanz unterschiedlicher Kostenaspekte von Elternschaft. Die Analyse basiert auf Daten von 237 Paaren, die im Rahmen einer Vorstudie des Projektes Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics 2006 erhoben worden sind. Die angesichts des Querschnittscharakters der Daten sowie der eingeschrankten Validitat einiger Indikatoren vorlaufigen Ergebnisse lassen sich allenfalls als mittelmasige Bestatigung der NHE interpretieren. Zumindest gewisse Unterstutzung erfahrt die Opportunitatenkostenhypothese: Mit zunehmender Bildung der Frau steigen die von ihr wahrgenommenen Opportunitatenkosten, was die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Familiengrundung herabsetzt. Auch die von der Frau angegebenen direkten Kosten, die mit dem Bildungsniveau ihres Partners sinken, beeinflussen die Erstgeburt negativ, was zunachst fur die Einkommenshypothese spricht. Allerdings kann nicht bestatigt werden, dass dieser positive Bildungseffekt seine Wirksamkeit uber die Kinderkosten erlangt. Schlieslich erweisen sich die von den Mannern wahrgenommenen Kinderkosten weder als bildungsabhangig noch haben sie einen Einfluss auf die Familiengrundung. Schlagworte: Neue Haushaltsokonomie, Familiengrundung, Kinderkosten, Paaranalyse ----- Child-related costs and the transition to parenthood: A preliminary test of the New Home Economics using data from German couples. Abstract The aim of this contribution is to examine basic implications of the New Home Economics (NHE) with respect to family formation using data from couples. This investigation extends the multitude of empirical applications of the NHE in two ways: First, the often neglected income hypothesis is tested simultaneously to the prominent opportunity cost hypothesis. Second, child-related costs are measured directly rather than assumed from individual’s socio-economic position since they were indicated by the respondent’s individual perception. Within a pre-study of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics a sub-sample of 237 couples was conducted in 2006. Due to the cross-sectional nature of the data and the limited validity of some indices the findings are only of preliminary character. They suggest only a moderate confirmation of the NHE. At least, some evidence is provided for the opportunity cost hypothesis. The higher woman’s educational level the higher her job related opportunity costs which finally decrease the li","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129012570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explaining Trends and Patterns of Immigrants’ Partner Choice in Britain","authors":"Raya Muttarak","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3592","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Based on the 1988–2006 General Household Survey (N=121,934), this paper investigates trends and patterns of partnership formation of immigrants in Britain and explains underlying factors influencing partner choice. The key questions are:1) whom do the immigrants of different gender, generation and ethnic groups form partnerships with: (a White British partner, a Britishborn coethnic partner or a coethnic partner from overseas); and 2) what factors are explaining such a choice. Immigrants socialised in Britain, the second generation and those who migrated to Britain at a young age, are more likely to have a White British partner and less likely to be in a transnational partnership. Age at union, marital status, educational qualification, area ethnic composition, sex ratio and educational homogomy are significant predictors of one’s partner choice. Yet, ethnic origin remains a crucial determinant of patterns of partnership formation. The statistical analysis suggests that the rates of interethnic union with a White British partner will continue to increase for Black Caribbean, Black Africans and also gradually for highly educated Indians. The proportion of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis having a White British partner will remain low and simultaneously transnational marriage with a coethnic partner from overseas will still be commonly practiced. Overall, interethnic partnerships between the White British population and the population with an immigrant background are increasing in Britain. Key words: intermarriage, transnational marriage, integration, ethnic minority, Britain ----- Wie sind die Trends und Verhaltensmuster der Partnerwahl von Immigrant(inn)en in Grosbritannien zu erklaren? Zusammenfassung Auf Basis des General Household Survey der Jahre 1988 bis 2006 (N=121.934) werden in diesem Beitrag Trends und Verhaltensmuster der Partnerschaftsanbahnung von Immigrant(inn)en in Grosbritannien untersucht, sowie diesen zugrundeliegende Faktoren, die die Partnerwahl beeinflussen, erklart. Folgende Fragestellungen sind dabei ausschlaggebend: 1. Gehen Immigrant(inn)en aus beiden Geschlechtern, aus verschiedenen Generationen und unterschiedenen ethnischen Gruppen eine Partnerschaft ein mit a) einer/einem weisen Britin/Briten, b) einer/einem Angehorigen der gleichen Ethnie, die/der in Grosbritannien geboren ist oder c) einer/einem im Ausland geborenen Angehorigen der gleichen Ethnie? Und 2) Welche Faktoren tragen dazu bei, diese Auswahl zu erklaren? Fur Immigrant(inn)en, die in Grosbritannien sozialisiert wurden – d.h. diejenigen, die zur zweiten Generation gehoren oder in sehr jungen Jahren eingewandert sind – ist es wahrscheinlicher, eine(n) weise(n) britische(n) Partner(in) zu haben. Zugleich ist es fur diese niger wahrscheinlich, sich in einer transnationalen Partnerschaft zu befinden. Das Heiratsalter, der Zivilstand, die Bildungsqualifikationen, die ethnische Zusammensetzung des Wohngebietes, die Geschlechterratio und Bildungshomogamie sind s","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134188679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of immigrant intermarriage in France: Intergenerational marital assimilation?","authors":"Mirna Safi","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V22I1.3594","url":null,"abstract":"Muster interethnischer Eheschliesungen von Immigranten in Frankreich: Intergenerationale Assimilation durch Eheschliesungen? Abstract: This article provides insight into immigrant in- termarriage in France. It describes trends of im- migrant marital behaviour between 1976 and 2000, compares intermarriage rates amongst dif- ferent immigrant groups and pays particular at- tention to changes in marital behaviour across immigrant generations. The statistical analyses take into account individual factors and contex- tual effects such as the sex-ratios and sizes of the groups in question. Based on data from the Echantillon demographique permanent (Perma- nent Demographic Sample, EDP) of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Econo- miques (INSEE), findings point to a stable trend of marital behaviour among immigrant men and women over time, sharp differences in intermar- riage rates among groups, and a significant change in the marital behaviour of second- generation immigrants, who intermarry much more often than their parents regardless of their origin.","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129054661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der Übergang in eine nacheheliche Partnerschaft: eine vergleichende Analyse zwischen Männern und Frauen auf Basis des deutschen Generations and Gender Surveys","authors":"Ina Jaschinski","doi":"10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2009-038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2009-038","url":null,"abstract":"Due to continuous high marital dissolution rates, re-partnering becomes increasingly a regular life course experience. However, only few empirical studies have addressed the topic of re-partnering after divorce. This analysis uses data from the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) conducted in 2005 to study patterns of post-divorce union formation in Germany. Particular attention is given to potential gender differences. Surprisingly, the empirical investigation shows no major gender differences in re-partnering rates. High education increases re-partnering rates for both sexes. There is, however, a gender difference how age at divorce determines re-partnering behavior. While women who are older at divorce experience a rather low rate of re-partnering, we do not find such a clear pattern for their male counterparts. (Key words: post-divorce re-partnering, re-partnering, separation, divorce, event history)","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"388 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133307029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entwicklung von Instrumenten zur Erfassung von Ambivalenz gegenüber dem Eingehen einer Partnerschaft","authors":"M. Pinquart, Carolin Stotzka, R. Silbereisen","doi":"10.3224/ZFF.V21I2.879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3224/ZFF.V21I2.879","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Vorgestellt wird die Entwicklung von zwei Instrumente zur direkten bzw. indirekten Erfassung von Ambivalenz in Entscheidungen uber das Eingehen einer Partnerschaft. Ambivalenz wurde hierbei definiert als Nebeneinanderbestehen von sich widersprechenden Gedanken, Gefuhlen und Verhaltensimpulsen bezuglich des Eingehens einer Partnerschaft. Insgesamt weisen die Instrumente gute bis zufrieden stellende psychometrische Eigenschaften auf. Ambivalenz geht unter anderem mit Neurotizismus, Schuchternheit, einer angstlichen Bindungsreprasentation an die Mutter und einer schlechteren eigenen Partnerschaftsqualitat einher. Das Instrument zur direkten Erfassung der Ambivalenz zeigt starkere Zusammenhange mit Ausenkriterien als das Instrument zur indirekten Erfassung. Berichtet werden Befunde zur differentiellen Validitat der drei Subskalen des Fragebogens zur direkten Erfassung der Ambivalenz. Schlagworte: Ambivalenz, Partnerschaft, Entscheidung, Familienentwicklung ----- Development of two instruments for assessment of ambivalence concerning the beginning of an intimate relationship Abstract The present paper describes the development of two instruments for the direct versus indirect assessment of ambivalence concerning the beginning of an intimate relationship. Ambivalence was defined as coexistence of contradictory thoughts, feelings, or intentions regarding the start of an intimate relationship. The new scales show good to satisfactory psychometric properties. Ambivalence was related to neuroticism, shyness, anxious attachment representations, and low relationship quality. However, the direct assessment of ambivalence was more strongly correlated with other variables than the indirect measure. In addition, results are reported on the discriminant validity of the three subscales of the direct assessment of ambivalence. Keywords: ambivalence, intimate relationship, decision-making, family development","PeriodicalId":273006,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Familienforschung","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128429192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}