職業生活の家族生活への影響--育児期後の女性の家族生活ストレーンの規定要因

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This article explores the sources of strain in family life among Japanese women in the post-childcare stage. It also examines the effect of work-related factors on such strain. Strain in family life is measured by family role overload. Analysis of National Family Research (NFRJ98) shows that working hours and type of life course significantly relate to a woman's family role overload. The longer the working hours, the higher the family role overload. Full-time workers who re-enter the labor force after a child-care period showed higher family role overload than those who continue working through a child-care stage/those who work parttime after returning to the labor force; and this relationship was especially clear among women who engage in professional/technical work and manual work. These results show that balancing work and family becomes especially difficult when women want to commit strongly to the labor force in the post-childcare stage. Prior research on the child-care stage has insisted that Japanese women leave the labor force to reduce the strain in family life. However, the results of this paper indicate that those behaviors have detrimental effects on the strain in family life at a later stage.
学術団体日本家族社会学会の論文