Kinkeeping and distress: gender, recipients of care, and work-family conflict
1993
Gerstel, N. | Gallagher, S.K.
This article examines kinkeeping and its relationship to distress. We document the extensive kin work--its breadth (number of kin helped) and depth (hours spent helping them)--performed especially by women but also by men. In support of a structural hypothesis, findings show that the breadth (but not depth) of kinkeeping is associated with depression for both women and men. In support of a normative hypothesis, analyses show that less normative kinkeeping increases distress while more normative obligations, such as caring for parents, may actually yield gratification. We find that role conflict--the interference of kinkeeping with both paid work and household obligations--helps explain the relationship of kinkeeping to distress.
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