eng Science and Education Publishing Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 2333-438X 2022-10-10 10 1 18 23 10.12691/rpbs-10-1-3 RPBS20221013 article Emiko Katsurada katsurada@kwansei.ac.jp 1 Mami Muto 2 Department of Psychology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Department of International Communication, Hannan University, Matsubara, Japan 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 (SD = 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. http://pubs.sciepub.com/rpbs/10/1/3/rpbs-10-1-3.pdf COVID-19 pandemic womenĄŻs stress gender-role attitudes relationship quality