Life skills and their relationship with family roles conflict for a sample of working women

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Home Economics, Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University

Abstract

The objective of the research is to know the relationship of life skills (Feeling control, time management, sympathy, taking over responsibility) the total with family roles conflict for a sample of working women(role conflict as a wife, role conflict as a mother, role conflict in doing household tasks.) and The total  .The research tools -represented in the primary data  form  and the two questionnaires of life skills  and family roles conflict- are applied on an intentional sample of 238 of working wives belonging to different social and economic levels. The research followed the descriptive and analytical method. The data was analyzed and the appropriate statistical treatment were performed using (Spss) program.Theresearch hasconcluded that: there is a negative correlation of statistical significances of life skills (Feeling control, time management, sympathy, taking over responsibility) the total and family roles conflictfor a sample of working women (role conflict as a wife, role conflict as a mother, role conflict in doing household tasks.). The research has also concluded that there are no differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in life skills (in terms of its axes and total) according to accommodation except for time management, it showed some higher levels in favor of urban inhabitants. As for sympathy results showed higher levels in favor of rural residents. There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in life skills (the axes and the total) in favor of older working woman, and also for long-duration marriages. There are no differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in life skills (in terms of its axes and total) according to the number of children, husband’s level of education. There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in life skills (with regards to time management, holding responsibility and the total) in favor of wife’s higher level of education; whereas, There are no differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in terms of sympathy and feelings control according to wife’s education. There are no differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in working woman’s life skills in terms of family income except for time management There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in favor of higher income. There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in conflict of family roles (in terms of the axes and the total) in favor of urban residents except for role conflict as a mother for which there are no difference with regards to place of accommodation. There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in conflict of family roles (in terms of the axes and the total) in favor of wife’s younger age. There are no differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in conflict of family roles (in terms of the axes and the total) according to years of marriage. There are differences in statistical significances between the average scores of the sample of the research in conflict of family roles (in terms of the axes and the total) in favor of larger number of children and lower level of education of husband and wife, and family ‘s lower monthly income.
The research recommended the following: Providing the atmosphere and all necessary supplies that can reduce the burdens of wife’s house chores and allocating more time for her duties through providing the package of community services such as nurseries, house services institutions, raising the awareness of working woman by planning guiding programs that can be provided by various social media, specially visual media which enables her to overcome the difficulties she faces to coordinate between her work outside the house  and what she faces  from  roles conflict inside the house.

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