Social Roles, Psychosocial Factors and Health in Venezuelan Working Women
Social Roles, Psychosocial Factors and Health in Venezuelan Working Women
Increases in women's labour force-participation, including that of women with children, have led researchers to study the health effects of women's multiple roles. Recent investigations have shown that the specific qualities of women's social roles as well as other psychosocial variables such as social support, distribution of household responsibilities and work-family relationship can affect women's health.
The present study aims to explore the relationships between sociodemographic and psychosocial variables on self-perception of physical and mental health in Venezuelan working women at different occupational levels.
Four studies were carried out using different methodologies, designs and testing additive and interactive models. Study 1 considered only secretaries (n=122), Study 2 included working women from different occupational levels and a group of housewives (n=417). Both studies were cross-sectional. In order to test the potential causal influence of psychosocial variables on self-reported physical and mental health, a longitudinal study was carried out (n=130). To enrich the results obtained from the three quantitative studies, the final study was qualitative (n=32).
Only the level of education and having pre-school children turned out to be health predictors. In general, women with partners reported better health than women without partners. The characteristics of women's social roles were the most important psychosocial variables considering the main and interactive effects that either put a strain on, or enhance women's health and well-being. Supervisor and co-workers support as well as the perception of job control were the most important protective aspects. Social relations at work played a fundamental role on mental health, moderating important work-related stressing conditions such as dissatisfaction with the salary/lack of recognition and promotion. Marital satisfaction was directly related to women's perception of health. Job control and social integration protected working women from stress related to marital conflict. None of the psychosocial factors studied for the mother role aced as protectors against the effects of this role on women's health. The results showed that integral approaches, which simultaneously consider work and family spheres, are required for the comprehension of working women's health.
University of Southampton
Feldman-Chaberman, Lya
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2001
Feldman-Chaberman, Lya
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Feldman-Chaberman, Lya
(2001)
Social Roles, Psychosocial Factors and Health in Venezuelan Working Women.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Increases in women's labour force-participation, including that of women with children, have led researchers to study the health effects of women's multiple roles. Recent investigations have shown that the specific qualities of women's social roles as well as other psychosocial variables such as social support, distribution of household responsibilities and work-family relationship can affect women's health.
The present study aims to explore the relationships between sociodemographic and psychosocial variables on self-perception of physical and mental health in Venezuelan working women at different occupational levels.
Four studies were carried out using different methodologies, designs and testing additive and interactive models. Study 1 considered only secretaries (n=122), Study 2 included working women from different occupational levels and a group of housewives (n=417). Both studies were cross-sectional. In order to test the potential causal influence of psychosocial variables on self-reported physical and mental health, a longitudinal study was carried out (n=130). To enrich the results obtained from the three quantitative studies, the final study was qualitative (n=32).
Only the level of education and having pre-school children turned out to be health predictors. In general, women with partners reported better health than women without partners. The characteristics of women's social roles were the most important psychosocial variables considering the main and interactive effects that either put a strain on, or enhance women's health and well-being. Supervisor and co-workers support as well as the perception of job control were the most important protective aspects. Social relations at work played a fundamental role on mental health, moderating important work-related stressing conditions such as dissatisfaction with the salary/lack of recognition and promotion. Marital satisfaction was directly related to women's perception of health. Job control and social integration protected working women from stress related to marital conflict. None of the psychosocial factors studied for the mother role aced as protectors against the effects of this role on women's health. The results showed that integral approaches, which simultaneously consider work and family spheres, are required for the comprehension of working women's health.
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