The Blalock and Wilken social exchange model of decision making guides this research on predictors of wife employment for a random sample of North Carolina women. It was proposed that the three goals influencing wives' employment decisions are (1) sufficiency of income, (2) maternal care of young children, and (3) employment/nonemployment as a source of personal fulfillment. The influence of these goals on employment decisions is based on their importance relative to each other goal; that is, if income level is low, wives are expected to be employed even if they have young children. Similarly, given sufficient income, wives with young children are not expected to be employed even if they have modern sex role attitudes (a proxy for personal fulfillment through employment). It was also proposed that husband's support of wife employment and presence of adult female kin in the household is positively associated with wife employment. Logistic regression equations including these independent variables were run on the dichotomous dependent variable of employment/nonemployment, controlling for wife age and education. It was found that husband's income and husband's support of employment were the strongest predictors of wife employment in all equations. Sex role attitudes and presence of female kin were not related to wife employment in any equation. The hierarchical ordering of the three goals was partially supported in that age of children was not related to employment when income was low, but was positively related to employment when income was high. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-02, Section: A, page: 0589. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75031 |
| Contributors | GLASS, BECKY LINNE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 152 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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