Cheng Cheng, Xie Yu
School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 10 Canning Rise Level 5, Singapore 179873, Singapore.
Department of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Eur Sociol Rev. 2023 Jun 9;40(5):802-819. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcad032. eCollection 2024 Oct.
Existing literature on the resource theory of marital power has focused on the relative resources of spouses and overlooked the resource contributions of spouses' extended families. We propose an extended resource theory that considers how the comparative resources of a couple's natal families are directly associated with marital power, net of the comparative resources of the couple. Using data from the China Panel Family Studies, we examine how the relative education of a couple's respective parents affects the wife's decision-making power, net of the relative education of the couple. Results suggest that the higher the wife's parental education relative to her husband's parental education, the more likely she is to have the final say over household financial decisions. Our study underscores the importance of situating the study of marital power in the extended family context and highlights the significance of social origins and intergenerational exchanges for marital power.
现有的关于婚姻权力资源理论的文献主要关注配偶的相对资源，而忽视了配偶大家庭的资源贡献。我们提出了一种扩展资源理论，该理论考虑了夫妻原生家庭的比较资源如何在扣除夫妻自身比较资源的情况下，直接与婚姻权力相关联。利用中国家庭追踪调查的数据，我们研究了夫妻各自父母的相对教育程度在扣除夫妻相对教育程度后，如何影响妻子的决策权。结果表明，妻子相对于丈夫的父母教育程度越高，她就越有可能在家庭财务决策中拥有最终决定权。我们的研究强调了将婚姻权力研究置于大家庭背景下的重要性，并突出了社会出身和代际交换对婚姻权力的重要性。
