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Wives Employed Off the Farm: Impact on Lifestyle Satisfaction

Patricia Kain Knaub

105 Home Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0811

Peggy S. Draughn

School of Home Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4300

Patricia Wozniak

Dept. of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Linda F. Little

Dept. of Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Craig Smith

110 Leverton Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0809

O'Neal Weeks

Dept. of Family and Child Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

Lifestyle satisfaction was examined in a seven-state survey investigating the ef fects of off-farm employment on farm families. Factor analysis determined that two factors identified as equity and financial security were dimensions of lifestyle satisfaction; and, for those who were parents, parenthood satisfaction formed a third dimension. A repeated measures analysis of variance on overall lifestyle satisfaction and on each underlying dimension determined that regardless of wives' employment status, wives were more satisfied with life overall than hus bands ; wives were less satisfied than husbands with equity; and husbands were more satisfied with financial security than wives. The effects of husband and wife ages, type of farm organization, farm size, and presence of children at home were also investigated. Results suggest that employment of the farm wife in an off-farm job has a different impact on men and women. Women's off-farm employment appears to impact women's lifestyle satisfaction more than men's.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 36-46 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8801700105
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