The Two-Career Family in the Navy.

Abstract

Two-career couples are studied and compared with military families having either a one-career/one-job lifestyle or a single-income lifestyle. The purpose of the study is to determine differences in attitudes and behavior of familes with the two-career lifestyle concerning their career intentions, career satisfaction and family services needs. A random sample of 459 married Naval officers was studied in the initial survey. The follow-up study involved 55 military members and 47 civilian spouses. It is found that two-career families were significantly different from one-career/one-job or single-income families in age, rank, designator, career intentions and family service needs. Transfers are the number one problem for two-career families. It is concluded that both the Navy and these families would benefit from adaptation of current transfer policies to the needs and desires of the more non-traditional career/family lifestyles. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA074188

Entities

People

  • Della J. Suter

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Head Of Household
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Families
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Transfers
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Family
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • United States
  • Warfare

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