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Dual career couples’ Role Expectancies and Role Conflicts

The purposes of this article are to find out general trends of couples’ role expectancies and role conflicts according to wives’ employment, to estimate the differences of role expectancies and role conflicts according to sociodemographic and family-related variables and to analyze the effects of significant variables and role expectancies influencing on role conflicts. The samples were selected from the employed wives and their husband, living in Kwang-ju. 169 couples’ data were used in final analysis. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, paired t-test, one-way ANOVA. Duncan-test, Chronbach’s α, and multiple regression. The results are as follows: 1) Employed wives and their husbands’ role expectancies were higher than their role conflicts. Husbands’ role expectancies were higher than wives’ but wives were higher than husbands in role conflicts. Especially, child rearing and housework demensions were relatively higher than others in role expectancies and conflicts. 2) In the case of husbands, role expectancies were significantly different according to the perception of family/employment importance and role conflicts were significantly different according to sex role attitude, support to wives’ employment. In the case of Wives, role expectancies were significantly different according to edu cation, husband’s income, her own income, job, unfairness perception, support of husband and parents in-law, job satisfaction. Role conflicts were significantly different according to marriage year, communication time and satisfaction with spouse, husband’s housework aid, unfairness perception, husband’s support to spouse’s employment, and job satisfaction. 3) From the regression analysis, it was found that husbands’ role conflicts were influenced by communication satisfaction with spouse, sex role attitude, perception of family/employment importance, and role expectancies. Wives’ role conflicts were influenced by communication satisfaction with spouse, husband housework aid, unfairness perception, sex role attitude, husband’s support to wife’s employment, and role expectancies. In conclusion, It is very important to reduce dual-career couples’ role conflicts with high communication satisfaction with spouse, advanced sex role attitude, husband’s support, housework aid, and low role expectancies.