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Women’s work and family roles in a bicultural context : the case of Indochinese refugees Wing, Jennifer Lynn
Abstract
This study examines women's work and family roles in a bicultural context. The Deacon and Firebaugh family resource management framework was used to develop a model to investigate (a) how women integrate two cultures' values towards work and family roles; (b) how orientations towards these roles affect perceptions of interrole compatibility; (c) how orientations towards these roles affect satisfaction with health, standard of living, job, and psychological well-being; and (d) how interrole compatibility perceptions affect satisfaction with health, standard of living, job, and psychological well-being. Data were from the third wave of an ongoing 10-year longitudinal study on refugee resettlement. All seventy-five women that comprised the sample held work and family roles. Measures were constructed to assess orientations towards work and family roles, perceptions of interrole compatibility, and involvement in each of the roles. Results found support for a typology of work and family role orientations which placed women into the categories of Assimilated, Integrated Type I, Integrated Type II, and Separated. The Assimilated and Integrated Type I group scored higher on interrole compatibility perceptions; the Assimilated group was found to have higher levels of satisfaction with their health and greater well-being than the other three groups. No support was found for the effects of interrole compatibility on satisfaction with health, standard of living, job, and well being. Results of these findings are discussed in terms of the model developed for the study, and in terms of the issues raised about acculturation and immigrant womens' experience with work and family roles.
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Women’s work and family roles in a bicultural context : the case of Indochinese refugees
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University of British Columbia
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1992
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Description |
This study examines women's work and family roles in a bicultural
context. The Deacon and Firebaugh family resource management
framework was used to develop a model to investigate (a) how
women integrate two cultures' values towards work and family
roles; (b) how orientations towards these roles affect
perceptions of interrole compatibility; (c) how orientations
towards these roles affect satisfaction with health, standard of
living, job, and psychological well-being; and (d) how interrole
compatibility perceptions affect satisfaction with health,
standard of living, job, and psychological well-being. Data were
from the third wave of an ongoing 10-year longitudinal study on
refugee resettlement. All seventy-five women that comprised the
sample held work and family roles. Measures were constructed to
assess orientations towards work and family roles, perceptions of
interrole compatibility, and involvement in each of the roles.
Results found support for a typology of work and family role
orientations which placed women into the categories of
Assimilated, Integrated Type I, Integrated Type II, and
Separated. The Assimilated and Integrated Type I group scored
higher on interrole compatibility perceptions; the Assimilated
group was found to have higher levels of satisfaction with their
health and greater well-being than the other three groups. No
support was found for the effects of interrole compatibility on
satisfaction with health, standard of living, job, and well being. Results of these findings are discussed in terms of the
model developed for the study, and in terms of the issues raised
about acculturation and immigrant womens' experience with work
and family roles.
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eng
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2008-12-19
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0086654
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University of British Columbia
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1992-11
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Graduate
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