An Analysis of the Factors Related to the Degree of the Role Conflict and the Likelihood of Exits of the Labor Force of Working Wives

취업주부의 역할갈등과 취업중단의사 관련 변수에 대한 연구

  • 정순희 (이화여자대학교 소비자인간발달학과)
  • Published : 2001.03.01

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to identify the factors associated with the degree of role conflict and the likelihood of exits of the labor force of working wives and to investigate the relationship between the role conflict and job quitting behavior of working wives. The major results of this study are as follows. First, the ratio of reservation wage relative to wife's earnings, wife's earnings, husband's behavioral support, the presence of child under age of 6, the type of occupation, and job satisfaction are associated with the role conflict of working wives. Second, there is a significant difference in the job quitting behavior of working wives according to the degree of role conflict of working wives. Third, the level of role conflict, educational level, the ratio of resonation wage relative to wife's earnings, husband's behavioral support, the presence of child under age of 6, the type of occupation, and job satisfaction are associated with the likelihood of job quitting of working wives.

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