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Integration of Home and Nonhome Roles: Women's Conflict and Coping Behavior
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Integration of Home and Nonhome Roles: Women's Conflict and Coping Behavior

Nicholas Beutell and Jeffrey Greenhaus
Journal of applied psychology, v 68(1), pp 43-48
01 Feb 1983
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.68.1.43
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Abstract

Attitudes Conflict Housewives Roles Sex roles Social psychology Statistical analysis Studies Women
A study was conducted to determine the factors that lead to conflict between home and nonhome roles among women. Also assessed were the coping mechanisms women use to manage this role conflict. A sample of 115 married female college students, who were living with their husbands and had at least one child at home, were interviewed about their sex-role attitudes and those of their husbands, their home-nonhome role conflicts, and their strategies for coping with role conflicts. The majority of the subjects experienced at least some degree of conflict between their home and nonhome roles, especially those subjects holding nontraditional sex-role attitudes. However, women married to men with nontraditional attitudes tended to feel less pressure from role conflict than women married to traditional men. Nontraditional women managed role conflict more effectively through structural role redefinition, rather than by attempting to meet all traditional home-role demands.

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