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Satisfaction with household production: the effect of time spent in household production by husbands and wives
Author(s) -
DILLARD BETTY G.,
WEAGLEY ROBERT O.,
HELMICK SANDRA A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1992.tb00524.x
Subject(s) - respondent , spouse , production (economics) , wife , index (typography) , household income , quality (philosophy) , variables , economics , psychology , demography , geography , mathematics , statistics , sociology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , world wide web , political science , anthropology , computer science , law , macroeconomics
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the extent of household production and satisfaction with household production. Data were obtained from 400 married couples who responded to a postal questionnaire. The dependent variable was an index of satisfaction incorporating two aspects of household production, quality and quantity. Regression analysis indicated that of the three variables representing the extent of household production in the model — hours spent by each spouse in household production and an activity index to measure the number of household production activities — only husband's hours spent in household production demonstrated a significant, independent effect. Other significant variables included husband's hours of market work, household net worth, age of respondent and gender of respondent. Two significant interactions indicated that (i) the relationship between wife's hours of household production and satisfaction with household production differed according to the gender of the respondent, and (ii) the relationship of husband's hours of market work and satisfaction differed according to the age of the respondent.