A mulher em múltiplos papéis e os seus efeitos para o bem-estar psicológico e satisfação marital

  • Nídia Castro Fortes Lopes Cardoso (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

The study presented here analyses women’s involvement in several roles and its consequences for the Psychological Well-Being and Marital Satisfaction, trying to understand how they manage to carry out the various roles, while keeping the fundamental Psychological Well-Being that provides them emotional stability and allows them to provide quality responses to their daily demands. The study was supported by a theoretical background concerning the theme and scientifically supporting the results obtained. On the methodological point of view, this is a correlational quantitative study, based on a socio-demographic questionnaire and on the Psychological Well-Being scales, the Marital Satisfaction Index and the Role Quality scales, applied to a sample of 60 women, who meet the criteria: having a remunerated occupation, being a mother and being married. The results obtained allow one to conclude that the higher the levels of satisfaction in marriage and the rewards of the remunerated occupation are, the higher is the level of Psychological Well-Being; the multiplicity of roles becomes a positive and challenging stimulus for the maturing and autonomy of the women, being promoters of Psychological Well-Being and Marital Satisfaction; in the relation between the multiple role development and Marital Satisfaction and its consequences on Psychological Well-Being, the results are inconclusive in a possible correlation of these roles and Marital Satisfaction. The participants present a high index of Marital Satisfaction, contributing to their Psychological Well-Being.
Date of Award11 Nov 2011
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorEleonora C. V. Costa (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Woman
  • Psychological well-being
  • Mental health
  • Multiplicity of roles
  • Marital satisfaction
  • Concerns and rewards

Designation

  • Mestrado em Psicologia

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