The self-efficacy and the perceived effects of employment status on married women and full-time housewives across two age groups

• Main Authors: Magtaas, Kristine Joy, Suatengco, Anna Mercedes, Sule, Avigail
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1999
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11878
• Institution: De La Salle University

Career women and full-time housewives across the early and middle age groups were selected to be part of this study. A total of forty married career women, twenty career women as well as twenty full-time housewives, ten from each age group were specifically chosen as the respondents. A structured interview was used to know the perception of these women on their respective employment status in terms of their roles as a mother and wife. A Self-efficacy Scale by Sheder, Maddux, Mercandante, Prentice-Dumm, Jacobs, and Rogers was also administered to find out the respondent's level of self-efficacy. Results showed that married women had higher level of self-efficacy as well as women belonging to the middle age group. These suggest that as women get older, they become more experienced, therefore, the higher the level of self-efficacy.