Housework or Money? What do Chinese couple want in a marriage?


Yueming Ouyang, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

As societal norms shift, the expectations of couples regarding their partners income and division of household chores also change. These evolving expectations can have an impact on marital satisfaction. To clarify the relationship between marital satisfaction and contribution to spouses economic and household chores, data from the Chinese Family Panel Survey (CFPS) in 2014, 2018, and 2020 was analyzed to track the marital satisfaction of Chinese couples over a span of six years. Firstly, this paper utilizes descriptive statistics to observe the levels of marital satisfaction, economic contribution satisfaction, and housework contribution satisfaction among Chinese couples over a six-year period. In the second section, the study employs the multiple linear regression method to investigate the impact of Chinese couples satisfaction with their spouses housework and economic contributions on their overall marital satisfaction. Lastly, the paper utilizes the mediation effect test to determine the validity of the chain mediation effect depicted in the figure (https://postimg.cc/dLnz51WL).

This paper will be presented at the following session: