This study was conducted to investigate married couples' family-shared activities and the differences in their family-shared activities depending on sociodemographic variables and married couples' equity consciousness. That is, the purpose of this st...
This study was conducted to investigate married couples' family-shared activities and the differences in their family-shared activities depending on sociodemographic variables and married couples' equity consciousness. That is, the purpose of this study is to examine the degree of effect sociodemographic variables and married couples' equity consciousness and the relative effect of family-shared activities have on married couples' happiness.
This study utilized the original data of the Second Family State Investigation conducted by Ministry of Gender Equality & Family in 2010, and as for the analysis subjects, this study selected 2,988 householders and their married spouses. Family-shared activities were divided into family-shared housework activities, family-shared meal activities and family-shared leisure activities based on previous researches. To analyze the data, this study calculated the frequency and percentage for each research problem by using SPSS 18.0 and verified the differences by conducting t-test and ANOVA for each variable, while carrying out multiple regression analysis to find out the effect of family-shared activities on married couples' happiness.
The results of this study can be summarized as below.
Firstly, the actual conditions of family-shared activities varied depending on sociodemographic variables and married couples' equity consciousness, out of which gender and caring activities showed clear distribution differences. When the subjects were female and had education background higher than university, they showed a higher rate of participation in caring activities. Secondly, as married couples had a higher equity consciousness, they showed a higher sense of happiness, and a group having more family-shared activities was found to have a high degree of happiness. Thirdly, variables having most effect on married couples' happiness were found to be average monthly household income, married couples' equity consciousness, weekday leisure activities and dining-out activities in order. It was found that as they had more average monthly household income and higher married couples' equity consciousness, and as they had more weekday leisure activities and dining-out activities, they showed a higher sense of happiness.
With the research results, this study confirmed that married couples' happiness was affected by their family-shared activities. When education for married couples to realize the importance of family-shared activities is provided in addition to various family-friendly policies in the near future, it is expected that it will increase married couples' happiness, ultimately enhancing family strengths as well.