Cognitive household labor: gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing.

IF 3.2 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Archives of Women's Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI:10.1007/s00737-024-01490-w

Elizabeth Aviv, Yael Waizman, Elizabeth Kim, Jasmine Liu, Eve Rodsky, Darby Saxbe

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Abstract

Purpose: Although the division of unpaid household labor has been studied as a driver of global gender inequity, the cognitive dimension of household labor-planning, anticipating, and delegating household tasks-has received less empirical investigation. Cognitive household labor represents a form of invisible and often unacknowledged domestic work that has been challenging to measure.

Methods: Within 322 mothers of young children, we assessed the division of both cognitive ("planning") and physical ("execution") household labor within 30 common household tasks using a self-report measure.

Results: We found that while mothers did more of the overall domestic labor than their partners, the division of cognitive labor was particularly gendered, such that women's share of cognitive labor was more disproportionate than physical household labor. We found that cognitive labor was associated with women's depression, stress, burnout, overall mental health, and relationship functioning.

Conclusions: This study is one of the first to investigate cognitive labor quantitatively, and the first to investigate cognitive and physical dimensions within the same household tasks. Understanding how cognitive labor affects mothers' mental wellbeing has important implications for both practice and policy.

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认知性家务劳动：性别差异及其对产妇心理健康和幸福的影响。

目的：尽管无偿家务劳动的分工作为全球性别不平等的一个驱动因素已被研究，但家务劳动的认知维度--计划、预测和委托家务劳动--却较少得到实证调查。认知性家务劳动是一种无形的家务劳动，往往不被人们所认识，因此很难对其进行测量：方法：在 322 位幼儿的母亲中，我们采用自我报告的方法对 30 项常见家务劳动中的认知劳动（"计划"）和体力劳动（"执行"）进行了评估：结果：我们发现，虽然母亲比其伴侣承担了更多的家务劳动，但认知劳动的分工尤其具有性别特征，例如，与体力家务劳动相比，女性在认知劳动中所占的比例更大。我们发现，认知劳动与女性的抑郁、压力、职业倦怠、整体心理健康和人际关系功能有关：本研究是首次对认知劳动进行定量调查的研究之一，也是首次对同一家务劳动中的认知和体力两个维度进行调查的研究。了解认知劳动如何影响母亲的心理健康对实践和政策都有重要意义。

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Archives of Women's Mental Health 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

4.40%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Archives of Women’s Mental Health is the official journal of the International Association for Women''s Mental Health, Marcé Society and the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology (NASPOG). The exchange of knowledge between psychiatrists and obstetrician-gynecologists is one of the major aims of the journal. Its international scope includes psychodynamics, social and biological aspects of all psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders in women. The editors especially welcome interdisciplinary studies, focussing on the interface between psychiatry, psychosomatics, obstetrics and gynecology. Archives of Women’s Mental Health publishes rigorously reviewed research papers, short communications, case reports, review articles, invited editorials, historical perspectives, book reviews, letters to the editor, as well as conference abstracts. Only contributions written in English will be accepted. The journal assists clinicians, teachers and researchers to incorporate knowledge of all aspects of women’s mental health into current and future clinical care and research.