Summary: | 碩士 === 大葉大學 === 休閒事業管理學系碩士班 === 91 === ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was explore employed Women’s job stress, family stress, leisure participation, leisure preferences and leisure constraints in Hualien City. The study further compared the differences and discrepancies in job stress and family stress as related to leisure constraints of the subjects.
The study distributed a 4-page self-administered questionnaire based on a random sampling approach. Three hundred subjects were selected from the Hualien household-registration directory, and 252 of them completed the questionnaire, with 84% response rate. Descriptive statistics, reliability test, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation were adopted for data analysis. Conclusions are drawn as follows:
1. The profiles of samples: The majority of subjects were married, bankers and insurance agents, childless, graduated from senior high school, living with parents, and earned a salary of NT$20,001-40,000 per month. Subjects’ average age was 35 years old. Primary working hours were during the day. And the main reason for employment was to help support the family living.
2. The results of bivariate relationships:
(1) Age, marital status, reason for employment, working hours, family life cycle and living situations were related to job stress.
(2) Age, marital status, reason for employment, working hours, education, occupation, and personal income were associated with family stress.
(3) Leisure constraints varied with occupation, income, and working
hours.
(4) Anxiety, fatique, depression, intention to quit job, and overall job stress were linearly related to leisure constraints.
(5) Work interference with family, role-playing dissornance, financial strain, family-first mind set, and overall family stress were linearly related to leisure constraints.
Finally discussion and suggestions based on the results were made.
Key Words: Employed women, job stress, family stress, leisure constraints
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