Daalen Geertje van, Sanders Karin, Willemson Tineke M
Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Women Health. 2005;41(2):43-62. doi: 10.1300/J013v41n02_04.
We examined whether gender differences in health, psychological well-being, and life satisfaction, can be explained by effects of work-related and nonwork-related sources of social support. The sample consisted of 459 men and women from dual earner families. Men report better health and psychological well-being than women, whereas women report higher life satisfaction than men. Contrary to our expectations, women receive more social support from colleagues than men, while men and women equally receive support from their supervisor. As for the nonwork-related sources of social support, men receive more social support from their spouse, while women receive more social support from relatives and friends. No gender differences exist in the effects of social support. Although men and women differ with respect to the social support they receive from different sources, these differences cannot explain gender differences in health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction.
我们研究了与工作相关和与非工作相关的社会支持来源的影响是否能够解释健康、心理健康和生活满意度方面的性别差异。样本包括来自双职工家庭的459名男性和女性。男性报告的健康状况和心理健康状况优于女性，而女性报告的生活满意度高于男性。与我们的预期相反，女性从同事那里获得的社会支持比男性更多，而男性和女性从上级那里获得的支持相当。至于与非工作相关的社会支持来源，男性从配偶那里获得更多社会支持，而女性从亲戚和朋友那里获得更多社会支持。社会支持的影响不存在性别差异。尽管男性和女性在从不同来源获得的社会支持方面存在差异，但这些差异并不能解释健康、心理健康和生活满意度方面的性别差异。
