Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents.
Division of Household and Childcare Labor and Relationship Conflict Among Low-Income New Parents.
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DOI：
10.1007/s11199-016-0604-3
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发表时间：
2017-03
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Sayer AG
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作者：
Newkirk K;Perry-Jenkins M;Sayer AG
我们研究了家务劳动和育儿劳动的分工之间的关系，其公平性的两种类型的家庭劳动（家务劳动和育儿）的看法，和父母的关系冲突过渡到父母身份。公平感被认为是家务劳动和育儿分工变化与关系冲突之间关系的中介。在美国东北部的工人阶级，双职工夫妇（n = 108）在五个时间点进行了采访，从怀孕的第三个三个月和整个第一年的父母。研究问题涉及到在向父母身份过渡期间，家务和育儿分工的变化是否预示着母亲和父亲的关系冲突，并关注这些家务的公平感的中介作用。家务劳动的调查结果表明，感知的公平与母亲和父亲的关系冲突，这样，当配偶认为在家庭任务分工的变化是不公平的任何一方，他们报告更多的冲突，但是，公平没有显着调解家庭任务分工的变化和后来的关系冲突之间的关系。对于儿童保育，公平调解的母亲之间的关系违反了期望的分工育儿和后来的冲突，母亲报告较少的冲突时，他们认为分工育儿不公平，对自己没有关系的父亲。研究结果强调了在我们的模型中独立考虑儿童保育和家庭任务的重要性，并表明家务和儿童保育的分工对母亲和父亲的关系冲突评估有不同的影响。
We examine the relationships among the division of housework and childcare labor, perceptions of its fairness for two types of family labor (housework and childcare), and parents’ relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Perceived fairness is examined as a mediator of the relationships between change in the division of housework and childcare and relationship conflict. Working-class, dual-earner couples (n = 108) in the U.S Northeast were interviewed at five time points from the third trimester of pregnancy and across the first year of parenthood. Research questions addressed whether change in the division of housework and childcare across the transition to parenthood predicted mothers’ and fathers’ relationship conflict, with attention to the mediating role of perceived fairness of these chores. Findings for housework indicated that perceived fairness was related to relationship conflict for mothers and fathers, such that when spouses perceived the change in the division of household tasks to be unfair to either partner, they reported more conflict, However, fairness did not significantly mediate relations between changes in division of household tasks and later relationship conflict. For childcare, fairness mediated relations between mothers’ violated expectations concerning the division of childcare and later conflict such that mothers reported less conflict when they perceived the division of childcare as less unfair to themselves; there was no relationship for fathers. Findings highlight the importance of considering both childcare and household tasks independently in our models and suggest that the division of housework and childcare holds different implications for mothers’ and fathers’ assessments of relationship conflict.