Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships
Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Brenda Seery, Ann C. Crouter
College of Health & Human Development
The primary aim of this investigation was to examine the extent to which the meanings women attach to their provider-role responsibilities are differentially related to their psychological well-being and family relationships and to the division of labor in the home. The sample included 43 dual-earner and 50 single-earner families. In home interviews, wives reported on role overload, depression, satisfaction with the marriage, and attitudes regarding women's and men's roles. Their children completed two measures assessing daily hassles and their relationship with their mother. Reports of daily involvement in household work were obtained from wives and husbands during four telephone interviews. Discriminant function analyses indicated that aspects of women's psychological well-being and marital and parent-child relationships and of the division of labor discriminated women in four different provider groups: main/secondary providers, ambivalent coproviders, coproviders, and homemakers. Wives who were ambivalent about their provider responsibilities tended to report higher levels of depression and overload and significantly lower marital satisfaction. Wives who saw their employment as secondary to that of their husbands reported relatively higher levels of depression and overload but also the highest levels of marital satisfaction.
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Perry-Jenkins, M., Seery, B., & Crouter, A. C. (1992). Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16(3), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00257.x
Perry-Jenkins, Maureen ; Seery, Brenda ; Crouter, Ann C. / Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships. In: Psychology of Women Quarterly. 1992 ; Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 311-329.
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Perry-Jenkins, M, Seery, B & Crouter, AC 1992, 'Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships', Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00257.x
Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships. / Perry-Jenkins, Maureen; Seery, Brenda; Crouter, Ann C.
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Perry-Jenkins M, Seery B, Crouter AC. Linkages Between Women's Provider-Role Attitudes, Psychological Well-Being, and Family Relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 1992 Sep;16(3):311-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1992.tb00257.x