Hu Yunyang, Li Jiamin, Ye Maolin, Wang Hanlin
School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
School of Education, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2021 Jan 18;14:49-59. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S286119. eCollection 2021.
Previous research on female employees' family interference with work (FIW) has demonstrated that such conflict is affected by their or their spouses' gender-role attitudes. However, few studies have considered the perspective of husbands-wives congruence, which is further meaningful of the research on FIW. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between husband-wife congruence of gender-role attitudes and wife's FIW.
Data were collected from 148 husband-wife dyads from eight companies in China. The average age of the husbands was 31.86 years ( = 8.75) and that of the wives was 28.39 ( = 6.38). The hypotheses were tested by the combination of polynomial regression and response surface methodology.
Four results were drawn. First, wives' role overload is lower when husbands and wives are aligned in terms of gender-role attitudes than when they are not aligned ( = 0.53, < 0.01). Second, on the condition of husband-wife congruence, role overload is positively correlated with their gender-role attitudes ( = 0.59, < 0.001). Third, on the condition of incongruence, wives' role overload is stronger when husbands' traditional gender-role attitudes are higher than wives', compared to when wives' traditional gender-role attitudes are higher than husbands' ( = 0.23, < 0.05). Fourth, role overload mediates the relationship between husband-wife congruence of gender-role attitudes and wives' FIW (indirect effect = 0.15; 95% CI [0.05, 0.27]).
Guided by the role theory, the current study suggests that the husband-wife incongruence of gender-role attitudes augments wives' role overload and further leads to FIW.
以往关于女性员工家庭对工作的干扰（FIW）的研究表明，这种冲突会受到她们或其配偶的性别角色态度的影响。然而，很少有研究考虑夫妻一致性的视角，这对于FIW的研究更具意义。本文旨在探讨夫妻性别角色态度一致性与妻子的FIW之间的关系。
数据收集自中国八家公司的148对夫妻。丈夫的平均年龄为31.86岁（标准差 = 8.75），妻子的平均年龄为28.39岁（标准差 = 6.38）。通过多项式回归和响应面方法相结合对假设进行检验。
得出了四个结果。第一，当夫妻在性别角色态度上一致时，妻子的角色超载程度低于不一致时（β = 0.53，p < 0.01）。第二，在夫妻一致的情况下，角色超载与他们的性别角色态度呈正相关（β = 0.59，p < 0.001）。第三，在不一致的情况下，与妻子的传统性别角色态度高于丈夫时相比，当丈夫的传统性别角色态度高于妻子时，妻子的角色超载更强（β = 0.23，p < 0.05）。第四，角色超载在夫妻性别角色态度一致性与妻子的FIW之间起中介作用（间接效应 = 0.15；95%置信区间[0.05，0.27]）。
以角色理论为指导，本研究表明夫妻性别角色态度不一致会加剧妻子的角色超载，并进而导致FIW。
