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Stavrova, Olga ORCID: 0000-0002-6079-4151 and Fetchenhauer, Detlef (2015). Single Parents, Unhappy Parents? Parenthood, Partnership, and the Cultural Normative Context. J. Cross-Cult. Psychol., 46 (1). 134 - 150. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-5422

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Abstract

Although the question of whether parenthood is generally beneficial for well-being is currently being hotly debated in the social sciences, single parents are nearly unanimously assumed to be worse off than their partnered counterparts. The present research questions this finding by demonstrating that whether single parents are actually less happy than partnered parents depends on a country's cultural norms regarding childbearing practices. Using two large-scale international data sets (the European Values Study [EVS] and the European Social Survey [ESS]) covering altogether 43 countries, we show that only in collectivist countries and countries with a strong two-parent family norm did parenthood negatively affect the life satisfaction and the emotional well-being of single but not partnered (married or cohabiting) individuals. Most notably, the detrimental effect of a country's social norm of a two-parent family existed even among single parents who did not share this norm themselves.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Stavrova, Olga UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6079-4151 UNSPECIFIED Fetchenhauer, Detlef UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-419866
DOI:	10.1177/0022022114551160
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Cross-Cult. Psychol.
Volume:	46
Number:	1
Page Range:	134 - 150
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-5422
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	Social sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PEOPLE HAPPY; SELF-ESTEEM; MARITAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL-INFLUENCE; NEURAL BASIS; NORMS; COHABITATION; HAPPINESS; CHILDREN; RELIGIOSITY Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41986