Feeling Incongruence between Social and Family Roles in Women

This paper discusses some aspects relating to incongruence of social and family roles in women. Thus, along with investigating various perspectives concerning social and family roles, special attention is given to their incongruence. The statistical society of the study consists of married young women (20 to 30 years of age) in Shirz city, who have been married at least for one year. The statistical sample includes 287 persons. The research instrument is the questionnaire which measures role incongruence in eightaspects: education, employment, financial management, domestic work, sexual and affective ties, family and friendship ties, leisure, and the childrear. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and significance testing methods were used. The findings show that women experience the role incongruence in all eight aspects, although the degree of such experiencing has been downplayed. Women feel the least incongruence within the family and the most incongruence in financial management. Concerning the relationship between independent variables and role incongruence, it was also revealed that as the husband gets older, marriages grows longer, and woman’s working hours increases, the overall role incongruence rises. Yet, along with an increase in couple’s education and income this incongruence diminishes.