Abstract

DEMA, Sandra. Qualitative approach to financial decision-making in spanish dual-income couples. Aljaba [online]. 2006, vol.10, pp.55-70. ISSN 1669-5704.

This article deals with a scarcely investigated issue in the social sciences, namely, the relationship between economic resources and power within dual-income couples. More specifically, it analyses financial decision-making procedures put into practice by these couples, which constitute an increasingly frequent a social pattern. Dual-income couples are not homogeneous in the way they make decisions, thus the importance of analysing the different decision-making processes of the interviewed couples and the obstacles they face at the moment of reaching negotiated and egalitarian agreements.

Keywords : Decision-Making; Negotiation; Gender; Couples; Dual-Income; Money.