Gender specific effects of financial and housework contributions on depression: a multi-actor study among three household types in Belgium
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- Rozemarijn Dereuddre (UGent) , Sarah Missinne, Veerle Buffel (UGent) and Piet Bracke (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Studies that focus on the effects of both the division of household chores and of financial contributions on the mental health of couples are scarce. This paper expands on previous research by paying attention to the variation of this relationship among three types of households: male breadwinner, one-and-a-half-earner and dual-earner. Using paired data from the tenth wave of the Panel Study of Belgian Households, collected in 2001, we perform separate linear regressions for men (N = 1054) and women (N = 1054). The results suggest that in one-and-a-half-earner households, women’s employment has a negative effect on their partner’s depression level and that in dual-earner households, the effect of women’s employment is only negative if men are not the major breadwinner. Crossover effects of depression between partners seem to mediate part of the aforementioned associations.
- Keywords
- ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY, WOMENS WORK, WIVES EMPLOYMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, MENTAL-HEALTH, CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, DIVISION-OF-LABOR, FAMILY WORK, HUSBANDS, SYMPTOMS, sociology, depression, type of household, financial contributions, housework, crossover effect
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5815486
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- Dereuddre, Rozemarijn, et al. “Gender Specific Effects of Financial and Housework Contributions on Depression: A Multi-Actor Study among Three Household Types in Belgium.” HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, pp. 78–90.
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- Dereuddre, R., Missinne, S., Buffel, V., & Bracke, P. (2014). Gender specific effects of financial and housework contributions on depression: a multi-actor study among three household types in Belgium. HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW, 23(2), 78–90.
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- Dereuddre, Rozemarijn, Sarah Missinne, Veerle Buffel, and Piet Bracke. 2014. “Gender Specific Effects of Financial and Housework Contributions on Depression: A Multi-Actor Study among Three Household Types in Belgium.” HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW 23 (2): 78–90.
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- Dereuddre, Rozemarijn, Sarah Missinne, Veerle Buffel, and Piet Bracke. 2014. “Gender Specific Effects of Financial and Housework Contributions on Depression: A Multi-Actor Study among Three Household Types in Belgium.” HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW 23 (2): 78–90.
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- 1.Dereuddre R, Missinne S, Buffel V, Bracke P. Gender specific effects of financial and housework contributions on depression: a multi-actor study among three household types in Belgium. HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW. 2014;23(2):78–90.
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- [1]R. Dereuddre, S. Missinne, V. Buffel, and P. Bracke, “Gender specific effects of financial and housework contributions on depression: a multi-actor study among three household types in Belgium,” HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 78–90, 2014.
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abstract = {{Studies that focus on the effects of both the division of household chores and of financial contributions on the mental health of couples are scarce. This paper expands on previous research by paying attention to the variation of this relationship among three types of households: male breadwinner, one-and-a-half-earner and dual-earner. Using paired data from the tenth wave of the Panel Study of Belgian Households, collected in 2001, we perform separate linear regressions for men (N = 1054) and women (N = 1054). The results suggest that in one-and-a-half-earner households, women’s employment has a negative effect on their partner’s depression level and that in dual-earner households, the effect of women’s employment is only negative if men are not the major breadwinner. Crossover effects of depression between partners seem to mediate part of the aforementioned associations.}},
author = {{Dereuddre, Rozemarijn and Missinne, Sarah and Buffel, Veerle and Bracke, Piet}},
issn = {{1446-1242}},
journal = {{HEALTH SOCIOLOGY REVIEW}},
keywords = {{ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY,WOMENS WORK,WIVES EMPLOYMENT,PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS,MENTAL-HEALTH,CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE,DIVISION-OF-LABOR,FAMILY WORK,HUSBANDS,SYMPTOMS,sociology,depression,type of household,financial contributions,housework,crossover effect}},
language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Gender specific effects of financial and housework contributions on depression: a multi-actor study among three household types in Belgium}},
volume = {{23}},
year = {{2014}},
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