The differences of depression levels between career women who are also responsible for house works and housewives who devote themselves mainly to our traditional female's roles are studied from the viewpoint of occupation and sex role identity in this...
The differences of depression levels between career women who are also responsible for house works and housewives who devote themselves mainly to our traditional female's roles are studied from the viewpoint of occupation and sex role identity in this thesis. Two hundred and twenty four career women and two hundred housewives are sampled for this from teachers, public officials, nurses, insurance saleswomen, and so on. Beck depression Inventory and Bem Korea Sex Role Inventory are used as a measuring tool.
The median values of masculinity and femininity scores are calculated. Then the whole people is divided as four groups (1)Androgyny group, who are those of both scores than median values. (2) Masculine group, who are those of the only masculinity score higher than median. (3) Feminine group. who are those of the only feminine score higher than median, (4) Undifferentiated group, who are those of both scores than lower than median.
The results may be summarized as follows. First, career women's depression level is lower than that of housewives. The difference has significance of p<.01. Second, the depression level of androgyny group is lowest among the all groups and the difference has significance of p<.001. Third, the effects of co-relation between having occupation and sex role identity has no significant difference. However, it is worth to indicate that masculine group shows lower depression level than feminine in the case of career women and conversely, in the case of housewives, feminine group shows lower level than masculine group.
It is recommended, in the future, that the more women are studied from wider areas and occupations in order to overcome their depression and the relationship between sex role and depression of man is also studied for happiness of home.