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Constructing dependency in coping with stressful occupational events : at what cost for wives of professional athletes?

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  • In taking a multidimensional approach to selected areas of the much neglected sport marriage, this article identifies and examines the survival strategies used by wives in coping with stressful occupational events in the careers of their husbands. Using a control management perspective, the idea of control work is introduced and evaluated both as a control process and a coping process, while it is further proposed that it can also be viewed as a dependent process. An analysis of the survival skills used by wives of career-absorbed husbands in responding to stressful occupational events reveals that control work is a combination of coping, control, dependent, and adjustment processes. In their effort to maintain family and marital stability, these wives have normalized these interrelated processes--but at a high cost.
  • Key Words: Control, coping, dependency, wives, professional athletes
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  • The ethnographic research reported here was supported in part by grants from the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program, and the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
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