"My daughter has a career; I just raised babies": The psychological consequences of women's intergenerational social comparisons
"My daughter has a career; I just raised babies": The psychological consequences of women's intergenerational social comparisons
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DOI：
10.1177/019027250406700202
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发表时间：
2004-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Carr, D
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作者：
Carr, D
我研究了20世纪50年代成年的中年妇女如何将她们的职业成就与20世纪70年代成年的年轻女儿的职业成就进行比较。分析基于威斯康辛纵向研究的定量和定性数据，该研究跟踪了一组成年人自1957年高中毕业以来的情况。近三分之二的母亲报告说，她们没有女儿成功，但这些不利的比较与自尊的关系很弱。开放式访谈表明，那些认为自己不如女儿“成功”的母亲，通过将自己将家庭责任置于职业追求之上的决定描述为与同龄人“步调一致”，从而保持了积极的自我评价；通过将他们不太成功的事业归因于选择职业自由的群体差异；关注女儿在平衡工作和家庭需求方面的困难。
I examine how midlife women, who came of age in the 1950s, compare their career accomplishments with those of their young adult daughters who came of age in the 1970s. Analyses are based on quantitative and qualitative data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has tracked a sample of adults since their high school graduation in 1957. Nearly two-thirds of the mothers report that they have been less successful than their daughters, yet these unfavorable comparisons are linked only weakly to self-esteem. The open-ended interviews suggest that the mothers who rate themselves as "less successful" than their daughters maintain positive self-evaluations by characterizing their own decision to give family responsibilities priority over career pursuits as "in step" with their cohort peers; by attributing their less successful careers to cohort differences in the freedom to choose one's career; and by focusing on their daughters' difficulties in balancing work and family demands.