Partner (in)congruence in gender role attitudes and relationship satisfaction.

ABSTRACT: The societal shift toward greater gender equality has led to increased variability in people's gender role attitudes, or the belief that men and women should occupy distinct family roles (i.e. men as breadwinners and women as homemakers). Existing evidence on the association between gender role attitudes and relationship well-being remains inconclusive with mixed findings, likely because past research has not adequately considered the direction and degree of (in)congruencies between partners within the relationship. Using longitudinal samples of 1,327 couples from the United States and 5,856 couples from Germany tracked over 2 and 13 years, respectively, we employed dyadic response surface analysis to examine how different patterns of partner (in)congruencies in gender role attitudes predi

SUBMITTER: Park HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747355 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature