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How does the sense of entitlement influence what happens in close relationships? Posing this question produced a rather remarkable variety of contributions to this volume. These include studies of gender differences in children’s household duties in Scotland, the incredibly intense mother-child “skinship” relationship in Japan, American husbands and wives sharing, or rather failing to share, household duties, the determinants of married couples’ satisfaction in the Netherlands, Austrian couples’ disagreement over how unjustly they have treated one another, and the emotional factors involved in German parents adjusting to the birth of their first child. This variation in topics and nationalities is accompanied by comparable diversity in theoretical models and analytic assumptions, for example, cognitive-affective appraisal, interdependence theory, communal versus exchange orientations, and justice motive.
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Lerner, M.J., Mikula, G. (1994). Entitlement and the Affectional Bond. In: Lerner, M.J., Mikula, G. (eds) Entitlement and the Affectional Bond. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0984-8_14
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