The Mediating Effects of Marital Intimacy and Work Satisfaction in the Relationship between Husbands' Domestic Labor and Depressive Mood of Married Working Women.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships between the husbands' domestic labor and marital intimacy, work satisfaction, and depressive mood in married working women. We used the sixth (2016) dataset from the Women and Families Panel Survey conducted by the Korean Women's Development Institute (KWDI). The subjects were 791 married working women who lived with a wage-earner husband and who did not have a housework assistant. The correlations between variables were measured and the fit of the structural equation model was assessed. We used a mediation model in which the husbands' domestic labor affected the depressive mood of married working women through mediation of marital intimacy and work satisfaction. Bootstrapping was used to verify the significance of the indirect effe

SUBMITTER: Choi SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7345565 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature