Work-Family Conflict and Attitudes Toward Marriage
Work-Family Conflict and Attitudes Toward Marriage
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DOI：
10.1177/0192513x12474631
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发表时间：
2014-05-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Fuwa, Makiko
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作者：
Fuwa, Makiko
使用2002年国际社会调查计划的数据，这项研究探讨了妇女的经济资源（全职就业，教育程度和收入）和他们对婚姻的态度之间的关联在31个国家（N = 14,827）。这项研究的重点是测试是否国家政策，以减少工作-家庭冲突（缩短工作时间表和加强公共托儿服务和育儿假）解释了跨国差异之间的关联妇女的经济独立和他们对婚姻的态度。研究结果显示，只有在平均工作时间较长的国家，受过高等教育的女性才对婚姻持消极态度。此外，在公共儿童保育服务慷慨的国家，教育程度的积极影响更强。这些研究结果表明，降低婚姻吸引力的不是妇女的经济独立本身;相反，降低妇女婚姻愿望的是工作和家庭生活之间的不协调。
Using 2002 International Social Survey Programme data, this study examines the association between women's economic resources (full-time employment, educational attainment, and income) and their attitudes toward marriage across 31 countries (N = 14,827). The focus of this study is to test whether state policy to reduce work-family conflict (shorter working hour schedules and enhancement of public child care services and parental leave) explains cross-national differences in the association between women's economic independence and their attitudes toward marriage. The results show that highly educated women have negative attitudes toward marriage only in countries with long average working hours. Also, in countries with generous public child care services, the positive effect of educational attainment is stronger. These findings suggest that it is not women's economic independence per se that reduces attractiveness of marriage; instead, it is the incompatibility between work and family life that lowers women's marriage aspirations.