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- Title
Unemployed, employed & care-giving mothers: Quality of partner & family relations.
- Authors
Wyrobková, Adriana; Okrajek, Petr
- Abstract
A retrospective ELSPAC study (N = 2756) compared three groups of mothers of three-year-old children: 1) employed, 2) voluntarily unemployed, and 3) involuntarily unemployed, about the quality of their partnership and family relationships. The results show that the involuntarily unemployed mothers have the lowest quality of family life. In these families there is more conflict, disagreement and hostile communication towards the woman and child. Employed mothers also experience some family problems. Overall, those most satisfied with their family lives are the voluntarily unemployed mothers. There is more positive communication between partners, including sharing and intimacy in this group. The results were interpreted as stemming from the distress caused by involuntary unemployment, the double burden of the female role and gender role models in the family.
- Subjects
UNEMPLOYMENT; FAMILY relations; EMPLOYMENT of mothers; RIGHT to work (Human rights); FREEDOM of employment
- Publication
Human Affairs, 2014, Vol 24, Issue 3, p376
- ISSN
1210-3055
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/s13374-014-0235-8