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

Park Ju-hee (Dept. of Family Culture and Consumer Science, Sungshin Women's University)
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Journal of Families and Better Life / v.23, no.6, 2005 , pp. 117-131 More about this Journal
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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.
Keywords
South Korean working mothers; multiple roles; role gratification; role strain;
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