Gender Identity and Sex Roles in Marriage : a review
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The following review paper assesses the current state of gender identity and sex roles in marriage. The paper looks at the new and emerging gender perspective in modern marriages and the role of men and women with regard to stability and open communication in a marital relationship. The paper looks at both positive and negative communication in marital life and its role on marital stability. It also looks at the role of masculinity and feminism in communication patterns and how they affect communication patterns. The paper looks at cognition in sex roles as that is a new emerging area in marriage psychology research and thereby sums up the field of gender identity in marriage from a marital therapy and basic psychology perspective.
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Avinash De Sousa, Janki Mehta
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- EP ID EP249097
- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.1.1.2014.7-14
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