With dual-career couples comprising the most commonfamily type, it is important for mental healthprofessionals, employers, and policy makers to understandthe unique challenges of this population (Haddock et al.,2001; Saginak & Saginak, 2005.) Numerous researchers havestudied the consequences of family and work role strain fordual-career couples. However, when dual-career couples areable to share responsibilities and negotiate degenderedroles they experience the benefits of dual-career couples.The literature clearly supports the importance ofegalitarian roles for marital satisfaction and lifesatisfaction of dual-career couples.While researchers have studied social role strain,gender role strain, marital satisfaction, and lifesatisfaction and discussed the importance of degendered roles and responsibilities for dual-career couples, nostudies have examined gender ideology. Saginak and Saginak(2005) called for researchers to investigate how genderideologies and the gender socialization process perpetuatethe challenges faced by dual-career couples in balancingwork and family.This study investigated the associations betweengender ideology and gender role strain, job-family rolestrain, marital satisfaction, and life satisfaction among70 individual members of dual-career couples. Amultivariate analysis of variance was utilized toinvestigate the relationship between gender ideology andthe criterion measures. Gender ideology was partiallyassociated with gender role strain with the androgynousgender ideology group scoring significantly lower on genderrole strain than the masculine or undifferentiated genderideology groups but not significantly lower than thefeminine gender ideology group. Gender ideology was notassociated with job-family role strain or maritalsatisfaction. In addition, gender ideology was alsopartially associated with life satisfaction with the androgynous gender ideology group scoring significantlyhigher on quality of life than the masculine orundifferentiated gender ideology groups but notsignificantly higher than the feminine gender ideologygroup.Thus, the current study indicates there are partialassociations between gender ideology and gender role strainand life satisfaction for dual-career couples. Mentalhealth professionals, employers, and policy makers workingwith dual-career couples should assess the sociallyconstructed gender norms and expectations internalized byindividuals into a gender ideology as the possible sourceof challenges experienced by the dual-career couple.
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机译：由于双职业夫妇是最常见的家庭类型，因此对于心理健康专业人员，雇主和政策制定者来说，了解这一人群的独特挑战很重要（Haddock等，2001； Saginak＆Saginak，2005。）许多研究人员研究了后果的家庭和工作角色使双职业夫妇紧张。然而，当双职业夫妇能够分担责任并谈判脱性别者时，他们会体验到双职业夫妇的好处。文献清楚地表明了平等角色对于双职业夫妇的婚姻满意度和生活满意度的重要性。 ，性别角色紧张，婚姻满意度和生活满意度，并讨论了双职业夫妇的角色和责任下降的重要性，研究研究了性别意识形态。 Saginak and Saginak（2005）呼吁研究人员研究性别意识形态和性别社会化过程如何使双职业夫妇在平衡工作和家庭中所面临的挑战永存。该研究调查了性别意识形态与性别角色压力，工作家庭角色训练，婚姻满意度之间的关系。和70对双职业夫妇的个人成员的生活满意度。利用方差的多元分析来研究性别意识形态与标准测度之间的关系。性别意识形态与性别角色应变部分相关，雌雄同体性别意识形态组在性别角色应变上的得分显着低于男性或未分化的性别意识形态组，但并不显着低于女性性别意识形态组。性别意识形态与工作家庭角色紧张或婚姻满意度无关。此外，性别意识形态还部分与生活满意度相关，雌雄同体的性别意识形态组的生活质量明显高于男性或未分化的性别意识形态组，但并不显着高于女性性别意识形态组。因此，本研究表明性别之间存在部分关联双职业夫妇的意识形态和性别角色紧张以及生活满意度。与双重职业夫妇一起工作的心理健康专业人员，雇主和政策制定者应评估社会建构的性别规范和个人内化为性别意识形态的内在期望，作为双重职业夫妇可能遇到的挑战的来源。
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