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Journal of Personality and Social Behavior, 3, 578–585.īickel, C. Role quality, multiple roles involvement and the psychological well-being in mid-life women. Chesney (Eds.), Women, work and health (pp. The relationship between women's work and family roles and their subjective well-being and psychological distress. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 53, 187–194.īarnett, R. The use of the General Health Questionnaire as an indicator of mental health in occupational studies. Validation of the General Health Questionnaire in a young community sample. Innes (Eds.), Recent advances in social psychology: An international perspective (pp. Happiness as a function of personality and social encounters. Personality and Individual Differences, 11, 1255–1261.Īrgyle, M., Martin, M., & Crossland, J. These findings are discussed with respect tothe general literature on women's roles and well-beingas well as within the context of the Malaysiansociety.Īrgyle, M., & Lu, L. The women's replies to questions on their preference for employment, theirhusbands' preference for them to work, their reasons forworking, the importance of work and family, child care,and their overall reports of work and family richly complemented the findings of the regressionanalysis. The qualitative resultsprovided another aspect into women's perceptions oftheir roles. Happiness was alsopredicted by spouse support. Results of the quantitative analysis showed that aftercontrolling for the demographic variables of age, race,and occupational group as well as the personalityvariable of negative affectivity, job autonomy predicted both measures of well-being. Both quantitative andqualitative analyses were used. The two groups were similar in termsof their socioeconomic status, as measured by education,occupation, and family income.

This study examines the relationship betweenroles (work and family) and well-being (happiness andsymptoms of distress) in a sample of employed Malaysianwomen, made up of both Malays (N = 288) and Chinese (N = 92).

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