The Influencing Factors on the Quality of Marital Role of Married, Working Women in Korea

Park, Eunok

doi:2001.7.1.80

J Korean Acad Women Health Nurs > Volume 7(1); 2001 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Women's Health Nursing 2001;7(1):80-92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2001.7.1.80

The Influencing Factors on the Quality of Marital Role of Married, Working Women in Korea

Eunok Park

Department of Nursing, Medical School, Cheju National University, Cheju, Korea

Abstract

The labor participation rate of women are increasing, especially for married and 30 and over aged women in Korea. Reason 2: Corrected spacing and capitalization errors. Marital role quality might be regarded as an influencing factor on quality of life or health status. The purpose of this study is to investigate influencing factors on quality of marital role for Korean employed women with husband. Data were collected from 323 mothers of students at 3 kindergartens, 2 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 4 high schools in metropolitan area during 1998.8 ~1998.12. . They were dual-earner couples, and were employed over one year. Response rate is 62.3%. Quality of marital role was measured using Role Quality Scale developed by Park, June & Kim (1999). This instrument is based on Role Rewards and Concerns Scale of Barnett et al.(1993) for quality of marital role. Quality of marital role is made of 19 items and the subfactors are doing households, satisfaction with husband, and relationship with husband. The scale has good internal consistency (Cronbach α = 0.90). The findings of this study show that age, monthly average household income, husband's occupation, husband's attitude for wife's employment, and the perceived equity for labor division between couples are significant variables for quality of marital role. But education, career years, working hours per week, occupation, monthly average wage, and marital years are not significant. 33.81% of the variance in marital role were accounted for by these variables.

Key Words: Quality of marital Role; Employed Women