中華心理衛生協會

The major purpose of this study was to examine the division of labor and coparenting for couples with young children. Paired data was collected from a sample of 309 couples. Couples reported their labor distribution, perceived coparental support, and their perception of marital satisfaction.Results showed that husbands shared less household chores and parenting work than wives. However, there were no significant differences in coparenting between couples, except for ‘active support” dimension. Husbands perceived more active coparental support than their wives did. Moreover, it is suggested that couples would divide their household chores, while they would both devote themselves to the parenting work. For coparental support, it is the mutual feeling perceived by the couples.In terms of parenting experiences and marital satisfactions, there was no significant relationship found between inequalities of division of labor and marital satisfaction. However, difference in the degree of active coparental support, as well as difference in perceived contribution to chores and parenting work, was related to husbands’ marital satisfaction.