title: Role salience and anticipated work--family relations among young adults with and without hearing loss.
abstract: This study examined the effect of hearing status on role salience and anticipated work-family relations among 101 unmarried young adults aged 20-33 years: 35 with hearing loss (19 hard of hearing and 16 deaf) and 66 hearing. Participants completed the Life Role Salience scale, anticipated conflictual relations scale, anticipated facilitory relations scale, and a background questionnaire. The deaf participants demonstrated a significantly higher level of commitment to work but anticipated the significantly lowest level of conflict. Hearing status was a significant variable in predicting anticipated conflictual relations among all participants. Mode of communication was a significant predictor of conflictual relations among the hearing loss group. Implications for theory and practice were discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel. cinamon@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Rachel Gali
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cinamon
authors.forename: Tova
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Most
authors.forename: Rinat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Michael
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003710:Demography; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012813:Sign Language; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires