| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 98 === The main purpose of this study was to explore how gender role attitudes and couple affection for married couples impact of housework. The study also investigated how the family background and personal resources affect the couple's housework participation. Four theoretical perspectives( resources theory, time availability, gender roles, and couples emotion) were used to explore a couple’s housework labor. The study examined 372 couples living together in Taipei & Kaohsiung city and county.
There were a number of findings from the study. One was that the couple's housework division of labor participation has not changed much over time. The wife still does most of housework. Another finding was that housework done by married couples are influenced by their working hours and the number of people living together. Therefore the more working hours, the less the participation in housework; the more people living together, the less husbands participate in housework, while it was the opposite for the wife. A third finding was that the husband's gender role attitudes have significant impact on their housework participation. This means that if the husband holds modern attitudes, he will be involved in more housework, while the wife will do less. There is also interaction between husbands’ and wives’ gender role attitudes: when the wife holds modern gender role attitudes, the husband with modern attitudes will participate more in the housework than the husband with traditional attitudes. Finally, the emotional impact of the housework participation only occurs in the early stages of marriage, the husband who feels closer to the wife will participate more in the housework.
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