Sex-role orientation, marital status and mental health in working women.
The objectives of this study were to make a men-women comparison as to the effects of job stress and sex-role orientation on mental health and to determine if marital status modifies effects of job stress and sex-role orientation on mental health in women. Subjects were 644 men and 301 women who were working at two private companies and one national agency. Job contents, sex-role orientation and mental health were measured by the Job Content Questionnaire, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the 30-item General Health Questionnaire, respectively. High job demands and femininity in men, masculinity in women predicted poor mental health. The best predictor of poor mental health was consciousness of being a woman in unmarried women, and stress outside the job in married women.
Mori
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Department of Psychiatry, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. mikalove@tau.bekkoame.ne.jp
Nakashima
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Yamazaki
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Kurita
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D017533:Marital Status; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014931:Women, Working