子どもの眼からみた家庭内労働の分担の衡平性

―女子青年の場合―

抄録

　　This study was designed to examine how adolescent females perceive their parents' equity in the division of household labor. Questionnaires were administered to female students. They were asked their parents' equity/inequity in household labor from two kinds of viewpoints; relational comparison and referential comparison (Van Yperen ＆ Buunk, 1991). They evaluated how equitable the division of household labor between their father and mother was. Next, they compared how their parents divided household labor with the way other parents divided. The quality of their parents' relationships was rated by the revised Quality Marriage Index (QMI; Norton, 1983). In addition, they rated their own sex-role attitude, using Spence ＆ Helmreich's (1978) Attitudes Toward Women Scale. Parents' masculinity-feminity was measured by Yamaguchi's (1985) scales.

　　The main results were as follows:

　　1) As expected, female students felt their mothers were much underbenefited in the household labor.

　　2) Among egalitarian students, the relational comparison was significantly related with the revised QML. This result was consistent with the similarity hypothesis proposed by Van Yperen ＆ Buunk (1991).

　　3) Among traditional students, adultness in their mothers was associated with the relational comparison. In contrast, egalitarians' ratings for sex-role characteristics of their parents were not related to either of two comparisons.