Casais de dupla carreira: a individualidade e a conjugalidade nos anos iniciais do casamento

Abstract

The marriage has been studied constantly facing the need to understand how it is represented today before many social and cultural changes. The early years of marriage represent a singular moment in the formation of the couple of extreme importance as it involves individual and marital aspects. Associated to marital issues, the impositions from labor market reflect in important differences in marital arrangements today. The aim of this thesis was to understand the dynamics of marital functioning across the adaptation process of individual and marital issues in dual-career couples in the early years of marriage. This dissertation consists of two empirical articles, the first titled Dual career couples in the early years of marriage:understanding the formation of the couple, roles, work and life projects, the second Marital quality in the early years of marriage in dual-career couples. We conducted a multiple study case with six heterosexual couples, first-marriage with five years of marital relationships, aged between 24 and 34, no children, living in Porto Alegre/RS, and the metropolitan area, characterized as dual-career or dual work. The instruments used were: sociodemographic questionnaire, semi-structured interview with the couple about issues related to marital and individual semi-structured interviews with each spouse. This study allowed to feature a sample of young couples with dual career from Rio Grande do Sul, as well to understand how the marital quality is configured in these early years of marriage, described in the literature as a difficult moment as it is necessary to combinate the individual and marital aspects.