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KMID : 0388520120240010001
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Nursing Science - Ewha Womans University
2012 Volume.24 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.9
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Double Role Experience by Woking Wives
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Lee Kwang-Ja
Um Chae-Chung
Kim Heon-Kyeong
Jo Hyeon-Mi
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to describe Korean working wives`experiences. Focus group interviews were utilized to conduct a grounded theory to discover if there was stress, coping, and perception associated with Korean working women. Researchers led three focus group discussions (twenty two subjects). Ages of the subjects were between 25 and 55 years old, wives worked outside for at least twenty hours a week and wives reside with their husbands. The results of this study are as follows: Wives believe that their employment is legitimate. Their employment increased family income and they gained satisfaction in performing multiple roles, but they complained of fatigue and pain in their joints. Subjects have less time for their own. They cannot negotiate with their husbands about house work. Family members give lack of support. Korean family believed that house work and child care are the responsibility of the wife. On the other hand, outside work was considered a husband`s responsibilities. Korean women are more comfortable with their daughter`s help than their sons. The outcome of this study can be applied as grounded work. In nursing intervention it can help understand a married working women`s stress, coping and perception of the multiple roles which improve her quality of life.
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KEYWORD
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multiple roles, stress, coping, married, working women
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