Journal of Family Relations (한국가족관계학회지)

Korean Association of Family Relations (한국가족관계학회)
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Comparative Study on the Relationships among Perception of Motherhood Ideology, Parenting Stress, and Marital Satisfactions of Employed and Unemployed Mothers

취업모와 비취업모의 모성이데올로기 인식과 양육스트레스 및 결혼만족도의 관계 비교연구

  • Jo, Sook (Dept. of Human Ecology, Chonbuk National Univ.) ;
  • Chung, Hey-Jeong (Dept. of Child Studies, Chonbuk National Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Ju-Yeon (Dept. of Child Studies, Chonbuk National Univ.)
  • 조숙 (전북대학교 대학원 생활과학과) ;
  • 정혜정 (전북대학교 아동학과 / 인간생활과학연구소) ;
  • 이주연 (전북대학교 아동학과)
  • Received : 2015.01.30
  • Accepted : 2015.04.15
  • Published : 2015.04.30
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Abstract

This study was to compare the relationships among perception of motherhood ideology, parenting stress, and marital satisfactions of the employed and unemployed mothers. The data were collected by self-administered questionnaire method from 182 employed mothers and 173 unemployed mothers with childhood children who lived in Cheollabuk-Do province. The major results of this research were as follows. First, perception of motherhood ideology, parenting stress of unemployed mothers were higher than employed mothers. However, there were not significant differences between the employed and unemployed mothers on the marital satisfactions. Second, there were significant differences in parenting stress and marital satisfactions of employed mothers according to education, spontaneity of employment, paternal education, paternal occupation, family income, occupation, individual income, and working hours. And there were significant differences in parenting stress, marital satisfactions of unemployed mothers according to spontaneity of unemployment, and family income. Third, results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that employed mothers' marital satisfactions were negatively influenced by spontaneity of employment, occupation, working hours, and relationship with spouse. And unemployed mothers' marital satisfactions were negatively influenced by depression, relationship with spouse, and isolation. Specifically, the variable signigicant affecting the employed and unemployed mothers' marital satisfactions was the relationship with spouses of parenting stress.

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