Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2010 Oct;24(5):568-77. doi: 10.1037/a0020637.
Treating the marital dyad as the unit of analysis, this study examined the within-couple patterning of 272 dual-earner spouses' provider role attitudes and their longitudinal associations with marital satisfaction, role overload, and the division of housework. Based on the congruence of husbands' and wives' provider role attitudes, couples were classified into one of four types: (a) main-secondary, (b) coprovider, (c) ambivalent coprovider, and (d) mismatched couples. Nearly half of all spouses differed in their attitudes about breadwinning. A series of mixed model ANCOVAs revealed significant between- and within-couple differences in human capital characteristics, spouses' perceptions of marital satisfaction and role overload, and the division of housework across 3 years of measurement. Coprovider couples reported higher levels of marital satisfaction and a more equitable division of housework than the other couple groups. Wives in the ambivalent coprovider couples' group reported higher levels of role overload than their husbands to a greater extent than was found in the other couple groups. As the first study to adopt a dyadic approach that considers the meanings that both spouses in dual-earner couples ascribe to paid employment, these findings advance understanding of how dual-earner spouses' provider role attitudes serve as contexts for marital quality, behavior, and role-related stress.
本研究以婚姻伴侣为分析单位，考察了 272 对双职工配偶的提供者角色态度在夫妻内的模式及其与婚姻满意度、角色过载和家务分工的纵向关联。基于夫妻提供者角色态度的一致性，将夫妻分为以下四种类型：（a）主次型，（b）共同提供者型，（c）矛盾的共同提供者型，（d）不匹配的夫妻。几乎一半的配偶在养家糊口的态度上存在差异。一系列混合模型方差分析揭示了在 3 年的测量中，人力资本特征、配偶对婚姻满意度和角色过载的感知以及家务分工在夫妻间和夫妻内存在显著差异。与其他夫妻群体相比，共同提供者型夫妻报告的婚姻满意度更高，家务分工更公平。在矛盾的共同提供者型夫妻群体中，妻子比丈夫更多地报告了更高程度的角色过载，这比在其他夫妻群体中更为明显。作为第一项采用二元方法考虑双职工夫妻双方对有偿就业的看法的研究，这些发现增进了对双职工配偶提供者角色态度如何作为婚姻质量、行为和与角色相关的压力的背景的理解。
