• 대한가정학회지
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• 제36권9호
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• pp.153-166
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• 1998

In this study commuter marriage was defined as a family in which working husband and wife, who have professional job having family orientation and job orientation, come and go lived separately for more than days a week for working in different region. This study examined the determinants of living separately the merits and demerits of commuter marriage, relation with family, family finance and household work for twelve case wives fitted for above definition, and the findings are as the following. The main cause of commuter marriage was wife's work place. The merits of commuter marriage were that wives can devote to their own increased time and that they had fresh feeling to their husbands. The demerit were mental burden to mother-in-laws and their mothers who take charge of home management and the high cost of living for double housekeeping. In the area of relation with family, they and their husbands call above one time per day for communication although they live separately for three or four days, do not insist on norms of living together, and overcome difficulties of commuter marriage well. In the area of family six couples used allowances method. They have high living cost like traffic expenses, telephone charges, and housing expenses because of double living. In the area of household work, they mainly manage family life with the help of household helpers like mother-in-laws or their own mothers.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.215-225
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• 2002

This research is intended to understand the housework performance of husbands that live away from their family and the human resources that may have effects while they do the housework. The research has been done by the interviews with twelve selected males who are married and live away from their family The results are as follows: First, the amount of time that the interviewees spend on the housework is less than thirty minutes a day. As for the clothing life area, they seem to depend on washers, cleaners and their wives for their laundry, except for six interviewees that wash their socks by hands. As for their food life area, they either have quick breakfast or do not have breakfast, and they go to a restaurant more than twice a day. Therefore, they tend to depend on services, and they only make the bed and clean the house. Second, affective components and cognitive components are the factors that make their housework difficult while physical components do not have any great effect. These two components have a great deal of effect on the interviewees'clothing related housework and food related housework.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.201-212
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• 2003

This study analyzed the objective indicators of household economic structures, such as income, expenditure, and debts, as well as a subjective evaluation of economic standards, and compared the households of commuting couples (so called Weekend couples) with those of non-commuting couples. Findings of this study are as follows. First, both husbands and wives in commuter marriages had a higher level of education, were younger, had poorer health, and had shorter working hours than the couples in non-commuter marriages. Second, commuting couples had a significantly higher income than non-commuting couples. In addition, commuting couples had a greater amount of savings, had a higher cost of living, and lower debts than non-commuting couples. Third, commuting couples evaluated their status of household economy more negatively than non-commuting couples. Despite the fact that the commuting couples were more affluent in terms of the objective indicators, including income, savings, and assets, their level of health and psychological well-being were compromised. Lastly, factors determining commuter marriages were the number of years the husband has spent in his job, and the husband's level of education. The shorter the tenure of the husband's job, and the higher the level of husband's education, the more likely the couple was in a commuter marriage.

• 아동학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.15-37
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• 2006

In this investigation of child's psychological wellbeing and parental satisfaction with dual income family(DIF), subjects were 297 3rd and 5th grade elementary school students and their mothers. Results showed that boys and younger children were more satisfied with mother's working than girls and older children. Mothers' DIF satisfaction was dependent on gross family income, parents' occupations, working conditions of each parent, commuter marriage status, and length of time in DIF. Child's psychological wellbeing related positively to mother's parental satisfaction, and to mother's satisfaction with parental roles, parent-child relationships, spouse support and child support. Only sub factors of dilemmas in parental role related negatively to DIF status. Child's satisfaction with mother's roles, father's roles, and mother working influenced mother's parental role satisfaction.