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Multiple roles and well-being among midlife women
— testing role strain and role enhancement theories | | Author(s) | Jennifer Reid, Melissa Hardy |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 6, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp S329-338 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Middle aged ; Social roles ; Well being ; Depression ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research on women's multiple roles frequently adopts one of two perspectives: role strain, assuming multiples roles as being detrimental to mental well-being; or role enhancement, which argues that engaging in multiple roles enhances mental well-being. The authors contend that the relationship between role occupancy and well-being is manifested through multiple dimensions of role experiences. They investigate the association between depressive symptomatology and various dimensions of the roles of wife, mother, paid worker, and informal caregiver to ageing parents. Data from the 1992 wave of the US Health and Retirement Study is used; and depressive symptomatology is measured by a sub-set of the CES-D scale. The robustness of the findings is also assessed by estimating multiple and log-linear regression. Although the number of roles women assume affects their reports of depressive symptoms, once the demand and satisfaction associated with these roles is controlled, number has no effect. These results highlight the importance of women's perceptions of the quality of their roles in relation to their overall well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000306228 A |
| Classmark | BD: SE: TM5: D:F:5HH: ENR: 7T |
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