The effects of job stressors on marital satisfaction in Finnish dual-earner couples

✍ Scribed by Saija Mauno; Ulla Kinnunen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 170 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-3796
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199911)20:6<879::aid-job982>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

The focus on the present study was to test a mediational model appropriate for explaining the eects of psychosocial job stressors, i.e., job insecurity, job autonomy, time pressures at work, leadership relations and work±family con¯ict, on marital satisfaction via job exhaustion and psychosomatic health. The study was carried out among 215 married or cohabiting dual-earner couples. The proposed model was tested through structural equation analysis (LISREL). The results indicated that the job stressors, except for job autonomy, spilled over into marital satisfaction via job exhaustion and psychosomatic health for both men and women. However, no empirical support was found for the crossover of job stressors between partners, signifying that job stressors experienced by one partner did not in¯uence the marital well-being of the other.