The Relationships between Women's Value Orientation as well as their Consciousness of Family Roles and their Life Perspective in Middle Aged Women with Children:

Feature of Form of Employment

Abstract

　　This study was to investigate the relation of the form of employment with middle aged women who were in their adolescence in the time when women were getting ahead in society. This relation was examined with regard to women’s value orientation (for personal goal value and for their mother role value) and consciousness of family role (consciousness of equality between husband and wife and consciousness of priority with their mother roles) and their life perspective. 270 middle aged women with children completed the questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses controlling for education indicated that orientation for personal goal value was a significant predictor of their life perspective for the total sample. For women with full-time jobs, orientation for their mother role value was also a significant predictor, and for women with parttime jobs, consciousness of a priority with their mother roles was a significant predictor of their life perspective. Findings suggested that for women with full-time jobs, both personal goal value and mother role value are important for their life perspective, but for house-wife women, only personal goal value was important for their life perspective.