Gender Role Attitude Malleability in the Context of Divorce and Remarriage: A Longitudinal Growth Curve Perspective

Mallory Lucier-Greer; Francesca M Adler-Baeder

DOI:10.1007/S10804-016-9231-Z

Corpus ID: 146939829

Gender Role Attitude Malleability in the Context of Divorce and Remarriage: A Longitudinal Growth Curve Perspective

@article{LucierGreer2016GenderRA,
  title={Gender Role Attitude Malleability in the Context of Divorce and Remarriage: A Longitudinal Growth Curve Perspective},
  author={Mallory Lucier-Greer and Francesca M Adler-Baeder},
  journal={Journal of Adult Development},
  year={2016},
  volume={23},
  pages={150-162}
}

Mallory Lucier-Greer, Francesca M Adler-Baeder

Published 2016

Psychology

Journal of Adult Development

Suggestions from structural symbolic interactionism are that gender role attitudes are malleable—able to change and be redefined over the course of adult development—at the individual-level, particularly in relation to significant experiences. Using longitudinal growth modeling, this study examined how divorce and remarriage affect gender role attitude growth across a 20-year period (N = 1731). Remaining in a first marriage was related to a slight, but significant decline in traditional… CONTINUE READING

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