The Effect of Multiple Roles of South Korean Married Working Mothers: Role Gratification and Strain, and Factors which Influence Potential Role Gratification and Strain

취업주부의 다중역할 수행의 효과 -취업주부의 역할 만족도와 긴장도 및 역할 만족도와 긴장도에 영향을 미치는 요인들-

  • Park Ju-hee (Dept. of Family Culture and Consumer Science, Sungshin Women's University)
  • 박주희 (성신여자대학교 가족문화 소비자 학과)
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

In this paper, 1 examined role gratification and role strain of South Korean working mothers. The results show that South Korean working mothers experienced very similar level of role gratification and role strain as taking their multiple roles. The findings also show that the factors of caregiving demands, employment demands, caregiving resources, employment resources are not strongly related to role gratification and role strain. Among the 12 caregiving demand variables and employment demand variables, number of children, type of family, number of hours worked were significantly related to producing role gratification. Among the 12 caregiving demand variables, number of hours worked, number of husbands absence due to night work were significantly related to producing role strain. Among the 8 caregiving resources, participants satisfaction due to income contribution, look to make a purchase new electric home appliances were significantly related to produce role satisfaction. Among the 8 caregiving resources, number of family support policies in the husbands workplace, participants satisfaction due to income contribution were significantly related to producing role strain.

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