A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF ROLE STRAIN, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN EMPLOYED MARRIED BLACK MOTHERS.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This research project was a descriptive study of role strain, anxiety and depression reported by employed, married black mothers. The purpose of the study was to quantitatively measure role strain in employed mothers to determine if the degree of role strain was related to their manifestations of anxiety and/or depression.

Seventy-five employed black mothers completed three questionnaires of the study: (1) The Job-Family Role Strain Scale (J-FRSS), (2) State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and (3) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Findings revealed that the degree of role strain related to employed mothers' managing multiple roles as measured on the Role Strain Scale (J-FRSS) was positively correlated to employed mothers' manifestation of anxiety and depression. Scores on the J-FRSS measurement correlated positively to Trait Anxiety scores, as well as to Beck Depression Inventory scores.

It was found that employed mothers with professional education and professional occupations experienced significantly less role strain, anxiety and depression than did nonprofessional women. Employed mothers' concerns with being better parents, the need to spend more time with children, and attempting to balance job and family obligations were among the variables that were predictors of anxiety and depression in employed mother subjects.

It was concluded that degree of role strain, anxiety and depression was related to their subjective perceptions of their situation rather than objective difficulty they have in accomplishing the particular task.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-09, Section: B, page: 3709.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1986.

School code: 0227.