Men whose wives have higher incomes tend to have erectile dysfunction.
Not all men can accept with sincere if the wife has a higher salary. Even if they try to not make that gap, this turns out to affect them psychologically.
Recent research from the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis found that men whose wives have higher incomes tend to have problems in bed. Chances are they have erectile dysfunction (impotence) is greater than the man whose salary is higher than his wife.
The researchers worked with a team from Denmark before analyzing more than 200,000 couples married in Denmark during the period 1997-2006. The wives whose income is higher than the husband is also likely to suffer from insomnia and medication for anxiety.
However, these side effects are not seen in couples who are not married, or in men who before marriage a lower salary (that is, after marriage they have higher salaries), according to a study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin this.
The results of this study have little to do with the studies that have been reported in the journal Sex Roles year. Patrick Coughlin and Jay Wade of Fordham University in the United States when it was revealed that men with traditional values (where men should be the breadwinners) tend to have a worse relationship if their partner has a larger income. This is due, income inequality cause tension for them.
Conversely, men who are not overly glorify traditional values are not so concerned with differences in income with a spouse. As a result, they have a better relationship with their partner.
In the online survey, the two researchers attempted to assess confidence in the men about masculinity, quality of relationships, and the importance of the income gap between them and their spouses. From a survey of 47 men was found, the stronger the belief the man on traditional masculinity ideology, the more likely they were to report lower quality relationships with a partner, and the more he felt the importance of income differences.
