Quantity and Quality: A More Nuanced Look at the Association Between Family Work and Marital Well-Being

The current study uses family systems and gender theories to look at three forms of family work (housework, emotion work, and child care) and their association with marital satisfaction and burnout. Data were taken from a sample of dual-earner mothers and fathers parenting preschool-age children. Fi...

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Published in:Marriage & family review 2017-04, Vol.53 (3), p.281-306
Main Author: Pedersen, Daphne E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnout
Child care
Child care services
Childrearing practices
Children
Dual career couples
dual earners
emotion work
Families & family life
Family work
Family work relationship
Fathers
Females
Housework
marital quality
Marital satisfaction
maternal gatekeeping
Occupational stress
Parent-child relations
Parents & parenting
Preschool children
Quality
Quality of care
Service provision
Well being
Wives
Women
Work
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Summary:The current study uses family systems and gender theories to look at three forms of family work (housework, emotion work, and child care) and their association with marital satisfaction and burnout. Data were taken from a sample of dual-earner mothers and fathers parenting preschool-age children. First, relationships between the quantity of family work performed and marital well-being were established. Then, measures related to the perceived "quality" of child care provided by a spouse (childcare appraisals and, for wives, maternal gatekeeping) were added to the statistical model. Overall, emotion work was the most influential predictor of women's marital well-being. For fathers, the perceived quality of care provided by mothers was most significant for marital well-being.
ISSN:0149-4929
1540-9635
DOI:10.1080/01494929.2016.1177632