Traditional Gender Ideology, Work Family Conflict, and Marital Quality among Chinese Dual-Earner Couples: A Moderated Me
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Traditional Gender Ideology, Work Family Conflict, and Marital Quality among Chinese Dual-Earner Couples: A Moderated Mediation Model Xiaomin Li 1 & Hongjian Cao 2 & Melissa A. Curran 1 & Xiaoyi Fang 3 & Nan Zhou 4
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Abstract Traditional gender ideology, which refers to individuals’ expectations for the gendered segregation between work and family responsibilities, is a well-documented predictor for marital quality. Using three annual-wave, dyadic data from 240 Chinese dual-earner heterosexual couples surveyed during the early years of their marriage, we (a) examined how husbands’ and wives’ endorsement of traditional gender ideology interact with each other to predict marital quality and (b) tested work-to-family and family-to-work conflict as potential mediators to delineate the mechanisms via which traditional gender ideology shapes marital quality. We found that, among couples in which wives endorsed weaker traditional gender ideology at Wave 1, husbands’ stronger endorsement of traditional gender ideology at Wave 1 predicted lower levels of husbands’ marital quality at Wave 3 via higher levels of husbands’ family-to-work conflict at Wave 2. Further, husbands’ stronger endorsement of traditional gender ideology at Wave 1 predicted higher levels of their own workto-family conflict at Wave 2 and their wives’ family-to-work conflict at Wave 2. Our findings highlight the importance of considering the discrepancy between two partners’ endorsements of traditional gender ideology in practice work to promote marital well-being. Furthermore, our findings suggest the necessity of promoting husbands’ endorsement of less traditional gender ideology for improving marital well-being in contemporary Chinese society. Keywords Chinese couples . Dual careers . Family work relationship . Gender role . Marital satisfaction
Gender ideology refers to culturally defined attitudes about the roles, rights, and responsibilities of men and women in a given Xiaomin Li and Hongjian Cao contributed equally to this work. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01125-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Xiaoyi Fang [email protected] * Nan Zhou [email protected] 1
Department of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Institute of Early Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Institute of Educational Psychology and School Counseling, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
society (Brannon 2005; Greenstein 1996b). Although each culture may hold its unique perspective for the roles, rights, and responsibilities that men and women are supposed to exhibit, cross-cultural similarities do exist (for a review, see Gibbons et al. 1997). M
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