Stress as a Driver of the Allocation of Housework

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 456-468

  Pittman, Joe F ^a   Solheim, Catherine A ^a   Blanchard, David ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Division of labor; Early marriage; Gender roles; Housework; Spillover; Stress contagion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347771596     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353509     Document Type: Article

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