Interação das dimensões de individualidade e de conjugalidade no recasamento

Abstract

The main purpose of this work is to investigate the relationship between individuality and conjugality in re-marriage among middle class people in Rio de Janeiro. The results al our research show significant differences beween re-married people and those on first weding. Once marital relationship is caracterized by a strong polaridez attitudes, individual either conjugal, partners create rigid limits between themselves either mix in a marital self to the point where the boundaries al the two individualities vanish away. Rigidity and preservation of stereotyped patterns wich caracterize couples on first marriage appeair in a lessened form on re-marriage.