Based on interviews with a sample of occupationally successful men, a description is offered of the competing engagements of work and the family and of the contributions these men see their families making to their functioning. Attention is given to reasons for limited discussion of work events with wives and for the control of emotion and its expression.
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Robert S. Weiss (1985) studied this question.
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