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Volume 24, Issue 2
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  • Marriage at a Time of Uncertainty
    The Effects of Earning Potential Using JGSS Life Course Study Data
    Takayuki Sasaki
    Article type: Article
    2012 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 152-164
    Published: October 31, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.24.152
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    In recent years, an increasing number of individuals have delayed marriage or remained unmarried, and this is considered as the major cause of the falling birthrate and the aging population. However, the results of past studies examining first marriages were inconsistent. Such mixed findings were due mainly to data limitations. Thus, the present study employed an event history analysis to investigate how the effects of individuals' education, work status, and living arrangements on marriage change as they age. Data from the JGSS Life Course Study 2009 (JGSS-2009LCS) containing detailed life histories were used for the analysis. The results showed that the magnitude of each determinant varies with age. Despite a rapid downturn in the employment situation, a man's earning power has continued to be an important key to marriage, while many people have begun to form expectations about a woman's earning role. Family formation is regarded as posing a considerable risk in a situation in which future economic prospects are uncertain.
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  • Stress Process among Spouse Caregivers
    A Structural Equation Modeling Test of Gender Differences
    Masanori Nishimura
    Article type: Article
    2012 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 165-176
    Published: October 31, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.24.165
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    Structural equation modeling was used to test a stress process model of spousal caregiving and to examine gender differences. Data from a sample of 314 spouse caregivers (206 women, 108 men) aged 60 years and older were examined. The caregiver's age and functional health status, primary stressors (activities of daily living and behavioral and cognitive problems), secondary stressors (caregiving burden), psychosocial resources (emotional support and caregiving mastery), and depressive symptoms were assessed. Multiple group analysis revealed that the interrelationships among primary stressors, secondary stressors, and depressive symptoms were equivalent for women and men. However, other paths linking psychosocial resources were slightly different between women and men. For both women and men, the caregiving burden mediated the effects of emotional support and caregiving mastery on depressive symptoms. Among women but not men, depressive symptoms were directly influenced by caregiving mastery.
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  • The IE Paradigm in the Light of the Selection of Chief Mourner
    An analysis based on obituaries in the Mainichi and 14 local newspapers
    Yoshiko Kanazawa
    Article type: Article
    2012 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 177-188
    Published: October 31, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.24.177
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    The present investigation concerning obituaries that indicated the chief mourner selected at the funerals of males over 75 years old, whether a wife or a firstborn son, aimed to specify the type of family system in operation. In the Mainichi, the majority of chief mourners were the wives, but in those cases, the deceased were urbanized public figures. This result suggests a situation that differs from that of ordinary people in local areas. An examination of chief mourners in 14 local newspapers up to 2007 showed that 65% of those selected as the chief mourner at a funeral were the firstborn son, and that selection of the wife was observed only on the southwesterly side of Kyushu.
    The Japanese family system is considered to have shifted from the stem family system to the conjugal in the latter half of the 50s. This study showed, however, that the orientation toward the stem family system has continued to function as an “unconscious institution” for over half a century, with the ie paradigm continuing to be found in funerals.
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  • Uniqueness of Spousal Support
    Quantitative Analyses Using Data from the National Family Research of Japan 2008 (NFRJ08)
    Yoshiharu Dainichi
    Article type: Article
    2012 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 189-199
    Published: October 31, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: October 31, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4234/jjoffamilysociology.24.189
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    The aim of this paper is to explore the uniqueness of marital relationships through examining the substitutability of spousal support by other forms of support.
    Using data from the National Family Research of Japan 2008 (NFRJ08), we tested both the effect of spousal support and other forms of support on psychological distress. We found that spousal support had a much greater effect on distress than other forms of support. We also found that the availability of other forms of support had little effect on distress if one had spousal support. Among women, other forms of support partially substituted for spousal support if one did not have spousal support, while among men, we did not find any substitutive effect of other forms of support. Consequently, the findings of this study implied that spousal support was more distinctive for men than for women, and that women were less dependent on their spouse than men.
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