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The division of labor in the home: Examining identities, distress, and meaning differences.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The division of labor in the home: Examining identities, distress, and meaning differences./
Author:	Kroska, Amy Jo.
Description:	364 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0622.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-02A.
Subject:	Sociology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9825457
ISBN:	0591777401

The division of labor in the home: Examining identities, distress, and meaning differences.
Kroska, Amy Jo.

The division of labor in the home: Examining identities, distress, and meaning differences. - 364 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-02, Section: A, page: 0622.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1997.

I review key omissions in studies of domestic work, develop a model that addresses these issues, and test parts of the model with data from a self-administered survey given to 314 married or cohabiting respondents. In most studies of housework, researchers fail to specify the mechanism by which family work divisions create distress, how housework and paid work affirm gendered identities, and the cognitive responses to family work patterns that do not confirm self identities. Also, researchers often rely on gender ideology as a predictor of housework participation despite its limited explanatory power. I address these issues by advancing a model that combines the "doing gender" approach with affect control theory and identity theory and by conceptualizing and measuring gender ideology as an identity rather than as a set of beliefs. Specifically, people may select family work activities that allow them to affirm the affective meanings of their identity. But if economic or social constraints force family members to do work that is not consistent with their identity, the discrepancy between their identity and their work patterns may create distress. To try to reduce the distress, people may change the meaning of some element of the work arrangement; identity commitment may determine the focus of the change. I test parts of this model. Contrary to predictions, people who do work that is not consistent with gender ideological-identities (e.g., traditional housewife, feminist partner) do not experience distress. As expected, however, these people do have unique affective meanings (evaluation, potency, activity) for identities and work activities. Specifically, males tend to see themselves and their work as especially good, powerful, and active, whereas females tend to have neutral sentiments about their work and many self identities. I also document the affective meanings tied to 34 family identities and work activities, showing that the meanings of male and female identities may be more similar today than several decades ago, and I examine the relationships between work patterns and meanings, showing that people tend to have especially positive impressions of their own work activities and the roles tied to these activities.

ISBN: 0591777401Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017541
Sociology, General.

The division of labor in the home: Examining identities, distress, and meaning differences.
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