The invisible dimensions of housework have a major impact on the mental load at home. Archive of Women’s Mental Health‘you According to a newly published study, women shoulder more burdens than men in both the physical and mental aspects of housework. Here are the details!

Routine tasks of daily life are often associated with physical actions such as cleaning the house, doing laundry and preparing meals. However, behind the housework there is also a mental burden of anticipating needs, planning and organizing. A new study shows that this mental burden is particularly high great impact on women revealed that it was so.

The invisible dimensions of housework have a profound impact on psychology

In the study, in collaboration with the founders of the Fair Play system, housework was divided into cognitive (predicting, planning, delegating) and physical (implementation) and examined how these tasks were divided between couples. mother with 322 children sharing household chores The information he provided about this was analyzed.

moms, responsibility for household chores They rated the child on a scale of 1 to 7, including “all mothers (1)”, “all fathers (7)” and equal distribution (4). The findings were as follows:

• Bathing and care: 2.27 – 3.07
• Bedtime Routine: 3.10 – 3.57
• Bills: 3.66 – 3.81
• Weekly breakfast: 2.58 – 3.06
• Calendar Planning: 2.11 – 2.23
• Childcare: 2.30 – 2.88
• Weekday dinner: 2.50 – 3.21
• Dishes: 3.40 – 3.80
• Extracurricular activities (non-sports): 2.10 – 2.44
• Friendships: 2.11 – 2.35
• Nest: 4.33 – 4.93
• Grocer and market: 2.55 – 3.14
• Household goods and materials: 2.59 – 3.03
• Homework Help: 2.15 – 2.42
• Laundry: 2.44 – 2.74
• Lunches and packing: 2.15 – 2.67
• Message: 2.84 – 3.23
• Home maintenance: 3.92 – 4.79
• Hospital work (children): 2.04 – 2.58
• Mental health: 2.07 – 2.42
• Morning routine (children): 2.76 – 3.01
• Night comfort: 2.58 – 3.20
• Pets: 3.01 – 3.89
• Diaper changing and potty training: 2.28 – 2.90
• Discipline and screen time: 2.65 – 3.40
• Total: 2.08 – 2.67
• Transport (children): 2.55 – 3.22
• Supervising children: 2.86 – 3.30

At the same time, these findings showed that mothers were responsible for about 73% of the ‘mental’ housework, while they took on 64% of the physical labor. As a result of the analysis The impact of mental workload on womenwas associated with higher levels of depression, stress, and relationship dissatisfaction.

Researchers emphasize that not only the physical but also the mental dimension of housework should be taken into account. The mental burden that women take on affects both the dynamics within the family and the family situation affects overall mental health. Equal division of labor can improve women’s mental health as well as increase relationship satisfaction.

REMARK: Research, By evaluating only the responses of female participants Since it was conducted with a relatively small sample size, we can say that more research is needed to come to a definitive conclusion about the mental burden of housework.