Careers of their own: Role-identity negotiation among Air Force officers' wives.

The purpose of this study is to explore how a military officer's wife, one foot on each meandering path, might navigate simultaneously her careerist and traditional wife roles. Specifically, this study asks the following: In their own words, how do Air Force officer wives define "career"? How does the military lifestyle impact the careers of these women? What obstacles and opportunities do they perceive? By what adaptive processes might career-oriented Air Force officer wives achieve both career satisfaction and commitment to their traditional military role? Finally, what does it mean to be a careerist-traditional wife, and how do such career trajectories proceed over time and multiple relocations?

Author dc:creator

• Dana, Krista Lorrell.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Scott, Wilbur J.,

• Officers' spouses United States.
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies.
• Women's Studies.
• Military Studies.
• United States. Air Force Military life.
• Psychology, Social.
• Air Force spouses United States.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11244/967

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