the level of satisfaction with life after becoming a parent: gender differentiation
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The level of satisfaction with life after becoming a parent: gender differentiation. Fulbright English Pre-academic Course 2008 OPIE. Institutional Affiliation - Ohio University Names of authors Pavlo Bohutskiy – UkraineGwendoline Nyambi– Cameroon Svitlana Volkova – Ukraine. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THE LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH LIFE AFTER BECOMING A PARENT:GENDER DIFFERENTIATION
Fulbright English Pre-academic Course 2008
OPIE
Institutional Affiliation - Ohio University
Names of authors
Pavlo Bohutskiy – Ukraine Gwendoline Nyambi– Cameroon Svitlana Volkova – Ukraine
Overview Introduction Background Research Question Methodology Results Conclusions Acknowledgments Questions
BackgroundCook et al, 1982:
– Attitudes towards marriage on the increase The idea that “marriage without children is not fully complete''
– Attitudes towards having children on the decrease
• Preference given to other priorities in life:– career, money making, fun, self denial
Transition to the parenthood• The change of married couple to parenthood is considered a
“critical role transition point” – Aldous, 1978
• Some authors present the transition to parenthood as a usual event that can easily be predicted and managed – Charting Parenthood, 2002
• It proves the fact that both personal and marital stress increase after becoming a parent
• Multicultural Health Communication Centre, June 2003:– Research also shows that parenthood could be a reason of
feelings like: anger, stress, guilt, confusion, and anxiety
Influence on life satisfaction?
Gender roles• Gender role attitudes shape parental attitudes differentially for
men and women Bernhartdt & Goldscheider, 2006
• Orientation towards transitions to fatherhood :– Coltrane, 1996– Nielsen, 1999
Research Question• Do males and females report different levels
of life satisfaction after becoming parents?
Main Goals To define changes in life attitudes in female and
male after becoming a parents
To evaluate changes in life preferences before and after parenthood
To prove or deny the hypothesis of gender influence on peoples’ life satisfaction after parenthood
ResearchResearch
SurveySurvey
AnalysesAnalyses
Methodology: Questionnaire• General information:
– gender, age, country and number of children.• Before parenthood:
– rank of life priorities– scale of time spent on those activities;– level of life satisfaction.
• After parenthood:– rank of life priorities– scale of time spent on those activities;– level of life satisfaction.
0 – 100%
7 main priorities
ParticipantsMalesMales FemalesFemales
GenderGender
38.5% 65.5%
Age Females MalesResponse Percent
Response Percent
<25 31.3% 50.0%
26-30 43.8% 20.0%
>30 25.0% 30.0%
Amount of children
Females MalesResponse Percent
Response Percent
1 75.0% 70.0%2 12.5% 20.0%>2 12.5% 10.0%
Distinctions in rank of priorities in life by gender
Conclusions from figures:• there are no direct relation between the ranking of priorities
and time spent for the specific activity
• For male:• – the level of priority in per cent for such activities as
sport/health, friends, career and self improvement are high then the per cent of time spent for these actions;
• the level of priority in per cent for activities such as family and money making is less than the per cent of time spent.
Conclusions from figures:• For female:
• – the level of priority in per cent for such activities as sport/health, friends and self improvement are high then the per cent of time spent for these actions;
• the level of priority in per cent for activities such as family is less than the per cent of time spent.
• The gap between priorities and time spent for male is 1.7 time more than for female
Conclusions• Birth of a child makes females feel less satisfied in life in
contrast to male who feel more satisfied.
• Before becoming a parent females have opportunities to spent more time for such activities as:
– as money making and career, what make them feel more independent and self-confident;
– part of females has to combine motherhood and work, or part time work.
Thank you for attention
Questions?