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Women’s Psychological Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan with a Focus on Gender-role Attitudes and Relationship Quality

1Department of Psychology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan

2Department of International Communication, Hannan University, Matsubara, Japan


Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 2022, Vol. 10 No. 1, 18-23
DOI: 10.12691/rpbs-10-1-3
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Emiko Katsurada, Mami Muto. Women’s Psychological Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan with a Focus on Gender-role Attitudes and Relationship Quality. Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 2022; 10(1):18-23. doi: 10.12691/rpbs-10-1-3.

Correspondence to: Emiko  Katsurada, Department of Psychology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. Email: katsurada@kwansei.ac.jp

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 (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.

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