- Title
- The subjective well-being and experience of life roles of white employed married mothers: a multiple case study
- Creator
- Evans, Amelia
- Subject
- Married women -- Employment -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects
- Subject
- Working mothers -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects
- Subject
- Self-Actualization (Psychology)
- Date Issued
- 2003
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:11019
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/290
- Identifier
- Married women -- Employment -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects
- Identifier
- Working mothers -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects
- Identifier
- Self-Actualization (Psychology)
- Description
- The number of women who choose to combine careers and traditional roles as mothers has been increasing steadily over the last number of years. As a result, the subjective wellbeing of these women has been the focus of many research projects over the last number of years. Subjective well-being has been defined in various ways by different authors. One definition describes subjective well-being as people's evaluations of their lives, which includes happiness, pleasant emotions, life satisfaction, and a relative absence of unpleasant moods and emotions. The current study, which took the form of a multiple case study, attempted to explore and describe White employed married mothers’ subjective experience of their well-being. The study also explored these women's experiences of combining the roles of employee and motherhood. The sample was obtained through the snowballing technique, and both qualitative (in-depth interviews) and quantitative techniques (two questionnaires - the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory) were utilized. The analysis of the data that was gathered was done by means of thematic and content analyses.
- Format
- 282 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Port Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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