性役割観が夫婦関係満足度に及ぼす影響

―パートナーの性役割観を推測したペアデータを用いて―

抄録

　　The aim of this study was to conduct a cross-sectional study on husbands and wives who are raising children in order to examine the relationship between discrepancies in couples' attitudes towards gender roles and their level of marital satisfaction. Two hundred and seventy couples were surveyed. They answered a questionnaire about own gender role attitudes and also surmised their partners' gender role attitudes in the same way. The principal findings were as follows:

1. The level of marital satisfaction diminished for both husband and wife from the time their first-born started elementary school; wives had a significantly lower level of satisfaction than husbands.

2. The discrepancy between the self-assessment scores and the partner's scores for their surmised attitudes towards gender roles (intra-self discrepancy) was approximately the same as that between a husband and a wife when their first born child was pre-kindergarten age. However, intra-self discrepancy gradually increased for wives. In contrast, the discrepancy decreased for husbands.

3. The level of marital satisfaction was significantly correlated with intra-self discrepancy in attitudes towards gender roles.

4. Intra-self discrepancy in attitudes towards gender roles was examined from two perspectives, namely, the size of the discrepancy and the direction of the discrepancy (whether it was traditional or egalitarian). This examination involved the absolute value and the plus/minus rating scale value. Results indicated that wives with an intra-self discrepancy score of 5 or higher and those with a negative score had the lowest level of marital satisfaction.

　　The above results suggested that intra-self discrepancy had a greater impact on the wife's level of marital satisfaction than the discrepancy in her partner’s actual attitudes towards gender roles.