TY - JOUR
T1 - Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships
AU - Perry-Jenkins, Maureen
AU - Seery, Brenda
AU - Crouter, Ann C.
N1 - Funding Information:
A version of this paper was presented at the National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, November 1990. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Susan McHale, Todd Bartko, Sue Crowley, Alan Hawkins, Michelle Hostetler, Shelley MacDermid, and Alex von Eye. The research was supported by Grant R01 HD 21050 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Ann C. Crouter and Susan McHale.
PY - 1992/9
Y1 - 1992/9
N2 - The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dual-earner and 50 single-earner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regarding women's and men's roles. Their children completed two measures assessing daily hassles and their relationship with their mother. Reports of daily involvement in household work were obtained from wives and husbands during four telephone interviews. Discriminant function analyses indicated that aspects of women's psychological well-being and marital and parent-child relationships and of the division of labor discriminated women in four different provider groups: main/secondary providers, ambivalent coproviders, coproviders, and homemakers. Wives who were ambivalent about their provider responsibilities tended to report higher levels of depression and overload and significantly lower marital satisfaction. Wives who saw their employment as secondary to that of their husbands reported relatively higher levels of depression and overload but also the highest levels of marital satisfaction.
AB - The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dual-earner and 50 single-earner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regarding women's and men's roles. Their children completed two measures assessing daily hassles and their relationship with their mother. Reports of daily involvement in household work were obtained from wives and husbands during four telephone interviews. Discriminant function analyses indicated that aspects of women's psychological well-being and marital and parent-child relationships and of the division of labor discriminated women in four different provider groups: main/secondary providers, ambivalent coproviders, coproviders, and homemakers. Wives who were ambivalent about their provider responsibilities tended to report higher levels of depression and overload and significantly lower marital satisfaction. Wives who saw their employment as secondary to that of their husbands reported relatively higher levels of depression and overload but also the highest levels of marital satisfaction.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00257.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00257.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84965528008
SN - 0361-6843
VL - 16
SP - 311
EP - 329
JO - Psychology of Women Quarterly
JF - Psychology of Women Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -
