@article{rpbs20221013,
author={{Katsurada, Emiko and Muto, Mami},
title={WomenĄŻs Psychological Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan with a Focus on Gender-role Attitudes and Relationship Quality},
journal={Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences},
volume={10},
number={1},
pages={18--23},
year={2022},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/rpbs/10/1/3},
issn={2333-438X},
abstract={The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us many changes in our lives, which placed much more stress on us. Previous studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic from all over the world indicated gender gap, that is, women more than men were negatively influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we focused on women and investigated the association among their stress level, gender-role attitudes, relationship quality, and experience of teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted an online survey. The participants were 547 Japanese women who lived with their spouse or partner during the COVID-19 pandemic. The average age was 40.03 (<i>SD</i> = 10.81) years old with the number of participants were equally distributed from 20s to 50s. The results of multiple regression analyses indicated that women who had egalitarian gender-role attitudes and/or higher quality of relationship with their spouse or partner had lower level of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the change in relationship quality from before the pandemic and the experience of telework did not related to their stress level. Implications and limitations of this study were discussed.},
doi={10.12691/rpbs-10-1-3}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}