Navigating Multiple Roles: Physicians Married to Non-Physician Professionals

A qualitative study of the lived experiences of dual career couples in which one partner is a physician is being proposed to fulfill the requirements for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Family Studies. The study will look specifically at how these couples manage the role expectations and demands from the home front as well as from the work front. The study will also investigate how these couples create time for the dyad considering the demands of both careers. While dual career couples have their distinct features, physician families that have dual career attachments have been under studied in regard to the impact their work has on their marriage, and there is need for more empirical research that addresses this and other issues. The proposed study will add to the empirical literature and will have implications for future research, theory, and practice, as well as for work-life policy issues for physicians.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Counseling and Family Sciences

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Fider, Carlene Olivia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fox, Curtis A.

• Family, Life Course, and Society
• Communication in the family; Marriage
• Dual-career couples
• Marriage roles

Statement dc:rights

• This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/30

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsrepository.llu.edu:etd-1029