부인의 취업과 부부의 상호작용 구조에 관한 한일 비교

A Comparison of the Wife's Job and Marital Interactions Between Japan and Korea

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the relations among wife's job and family life structure of couples, and to compare them between Japan and Korea. The data for this study was obtained from a survey of 247 Japanese couples who were risiding in Osaka and 235 Korean couples in Deagu, 1992. The major findings of this study can be summarized as follow: 1. The contents of Household works is classified into three factors-daily routine houseworks, child-rearing, economic-management of household, in Korea, and into two factors-daily routine houseworks, child and economic management, in Japan. The contents of descision making is classified into four factors-husband's personal sphere, family life management, wife's personal sphere, and home economic sphere, in Korea, and three factors-husband's personal sphere, economic life management of family, and wife's personal sphere, in Japan. 2. In Korea and Japan, wife's job have not effect on couple's marital satisfaction, directly. However, wife's job contribute to husband's share of daily routine houseworks.