Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout: A 40-Country Study

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Vol/Iss. 53(2) Sage Publications Published In Pages: 157-178
By Roskam, Isabelle, Gallée, Laura, Aguiar, Joyce, Akgun, Ege, Arena, Andrew, Arikan, Gizem, Aunola, Kaisa, Bader, Michel, Barham, Elizabeth J., Besson, Eliane, Beyers, Wim, Boujut, Emilie, Brianda, Maria Elena, Brytek-Matera, Anna, Carbonneau, Noémie, César, Filipa, Chen, Bin-Bin, Dorard, Géraldine, Dos Santos Elias, Luciana Carla, Dunsmuir, Sandra, Egorova, Natalia, Favez, Nicolas, Fontaine, Anne-Marie, Foran, Heather, Fricke, Julia, Furutani, Kaichiro, Gannagé, Myrna, Gaspar, Maria, Godbout, Lucie, Goldenberg, Amit, Gross, James J., Ancuta Gurza, Maria, Hashmi, Muhammad Aamir, Helmy, Mai, Huynh, Mai Trang, Kaneza, Emérence, Kawamoto, Taishi, Kellou, Nassima, Medjahdi, Oussama, Knezevic, Goran, Lazarevic, Ljiljana B., Le Vigouroux, Sarah, Lebert-Charron, Astrid, Leme, Vanessa, Lin, Gao-Xian, MacCann, Carolyn, Manrique-Millones, Denisse, Matias, Marisa, Miranda-Orrego, María Isabel, Miscioscia, Marina, Morgades-Bamba, Clara, Mousavi, Seyyedeh Fatemeh, Moutassem-Mimouni, Badra, Muntean, Ana, Murphy, Hugh, Ndayizigiye, Alexis, Ngnombouowo, Tenkue Josué, Olderbak, Sally

Hypothesis

Maternal burnout will increase when raising a child in a country with a high level of gender equality in areas other than parenting.

Note

There is a positive association between gender equality in areas besides parenting and maternal burnout.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
Spearman's rank correlationsSupportedp < .001r = .34 at societal levelUNKNOWN