초록
The purpose of this study was to explore family member's perceived attitude toward housewife's volunteer activities and examined the realated-influences on their family lives. The major findings were that(1) men had more conservative attitudes. and some reluctance to the wives' volunteer activities compared to the adolescent (2) education and the personal experiences of the volunteer activity were the most influential factor to family member's attitudinal difference(3) family members had some ambivalent attitudes toward the wive(mother)'s volunteer activities more positive to the general perception and more negative to their daily life chores resulted from her social activities (4) the longer the volunteer activities continued the more functionalized and satisfied the family members and lives were.