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Sources of Economic Distress

Individual and Family Outcomes

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

DUDLEY CHANCEY

Oklahoma Christian University

Examined in this article are relationships between six measures of economic stress—financial adequacy, perceived economic well-being, respondent's and partner's job instability, and respondent's and partner's job insecurity—and seven measures of individual and family well-being. Presented are descriptive and regression analyses of social survey data drawn from telephone interviews with 366 householders ages 18 to 65 residing in a southeastern U.S. metropolitan county. For both women and men, perceived economic well-being was generally the strongest predictor of measures of individual and family well-being. For men as well as women, spouse's or partner's job variables were important predictors of measures of family well-being. The respondent's own job instability and insecurity appeared more important to women than men, and more so for family than individual well-being outcomes. Two alternative pathways were proposed and partially supported for the influence of economic factors on individual well-being.

Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 19, No. 6, 725-749 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/019251398019006004


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