맞버이부부의 가사역할공유와 결혼만족도의 관계 연구

A Study on the Relationships Between Housework Role Sharing and Marital Satisfaction in Dual-Earner Couples

This study attempts to explore the relationship between housework role sharing and marital satisfaction in dual-couples and to test the availability of three theoretical approaches. The data of this study had been collected from a sample consisting of 370 dual-earner couples who live in Seoul city or Kyoungki-Do The structures self-administrating questionnaires, separated for husband and wife, had been collected from May to July, 1994. Major findings are as follows : The level of housework sharking between husband and wife is very low, and the wives perceived that they are disadvantaged because of their dual burdens, job and housework. So the wives' marital satisfaction is lower than the husbands' marital satisfaction. Among the three theoretical approaches, the role homophily theory and perceived-equity theory are validated in case of wives' marital satisfaction. not husbands' marital satisfaction. This study proposes that family policy need to help the dual burdens of employed wives, particularly working-class women, and to educate men to change their traditional sex-role attitude.