Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the housework participation and the sense of housework fairness for elementary school students. A total numbers of the sample is 905, selected from elementary schools in Taipei City and New Taipei City. The main conclusions of this research are as following:
Ⅰ. The housework participation:
1. The students do few housework in their homes, and they more self-care tasks than family-care tasks.
2. The students do more housework, when they have higher schooling in elementary school.
3. Most elementary school students like to do housework. When they have more preference in housework, they will do more the housework at home.
4. Female students do more housework than male students do. But, when female students who joined more days for the after school programs, who did less housework at home.
Ⅱ. The sense of housework fairness:
1. The male elementary school students who do more family-care tasks tend to have more the sense of fairness in the division of housework.
2. When having more preference in housework, elementary school students will tend to have sense of fairness in division of housework.
3. The concept of fairness (egalitarian, benevolent, and meritarian) will significantly affect the students’ sense of fairness in housework division.
Key Words: Elementary school student, Housework participation, The sense of housework fairness.
