Orthner, Dennis K.

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Role competence and psychological well-being among the elderly 1977 430 This empirical investigation examined the relationship between psychological well-being and role competence among people 65 years of age and older. Three research questions were addressed: To what extent do older persons’ assessments of their compete...
A re-examination of the institutionalization of equalitarian marital role norms 1976 341 It was the purpose of this study to replicate the research done by Dyer and Urban (1958) on the institutionalization of marital role norms, and to extend that research by more representative sampling and by using a contemporary theory to interpret th...
Sex-role preferences and marital quality in the military 1981 299 The purpose of this study was to examine the sex-role preference patterns of military husbands and wives and to assess how these preferences are related to the quality of the couple's relationship. To accomplish this aim, a fourfold typology of sex-r...
Discriminators of interest in family support programs among Air Force couples 1981 252 This study examined levels of interest toward participation in three family support programs by 331 randomly selected Air Force couples in the United States and Germany. The family support programs selected were couple communication, marriage enrichm...
Marital quality and interspousal self-concept congruency 1981 284 The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between marital quality and interspousal self-concept congruency. This study also sought to investigate the influence of changing sex-role attitudes on marriage. The consensus among researcher...