Department of Demography, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Department of Sociology, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 20;14(3):e0214204. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214204. eCollection 2019.
There is a demonstrated relationship between couples' division of household chores-and, to a lesser extent, the division of shared expenses-and their relationship quality. Less is known, however, about whether and how individuals' perceived fairness of these arrangements is associated with couples' relationships in different ways. Using a gendered equity framework, and drawing on 10,236 responses collected via an online national news website, this study examines how equity evaluations of housework and shared expenses are related to relationship satisfaction and sex frequency among different-gender household partners. Consistent with previous findings, the results indicate that evaluations of unfairness to oneself are a stronger predictor of relationship quality than perceived unfairness to one's partner. Additionally, fairness evaluations over shared expenses are a stronger predictor of relationship quality than perceived equity in housework. Incorporating notions about traditional gender norms and expectations into the justice framework, the results point to some variation in relationship outcomes based on men's and women's differential equity evaluations.
夫妻双方承担家务劳动的分工情况（在较小程度上还包括共同支出的分担情况）与他们的关系质量之间存在着明显的关系。然而，人们对于个人对这些安排的公平感知是否以及如何以不同的方式与夫妻关系相关知之甚少。本研究以性别公平框架为基础，利用通过在线全国性新闻网站收集的 10236 份回复，考察了家务劳动和共同支出的公平评估与不同性别家庭伴侣的关系满意度和性生活频率之间的关系。与之前的研究结果一致，研究结果表明，对自身不公平的评估比对伴侣不公平的评估更能预测关系质量。此外，对共同支出的公平评估比对家务劳动中的公平感知更能预测关系质量。将传统性别规范和期望的概念纳入公正框架，结果表明，根据男性和女性的不同公平评估，关系结果存在一些差异。
