| Abstract: | Examined women's involvement in multiple roles in relation to 3 stress indices: role overload, role conflict, and anxiety. With hierarchical multiple regression analyses, the effects of number of roles occupied; occupancy of the particular roles of paid worker, wife, and mother; and the quality of a woman's experience in her roles were analyzed. Data were from a disproportionate stratified random sample of 238 White women between 35 and 55 yrs of age. For the total sample and for employed Ss, occupancy of the role of mother was related to 2 stress indices; occupancy of the role of paid worker was related to none. Role conflict and role overload were strongly related to anxiety only among nonemployed Ss. The quality of experience in the work and in parental roles was a significant predictor of role overload; quality of parental role experience was a significant predictor of role conflict and of anxiety. (30 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
