Housework, Health, and Well-Being in Older Adults: The Role of Socioeconomic Status

Housework, Health, and Well-Being in Older Adults: The Role of Socioeconomic Status

household chores are necessary tasks but perceiving the amount of time spent on these tasks as unfair can produce long-term negative consequences on health, well-being, and relationship quality. A key contribution of this study stems from introducing participants’ socio-economic status as a factor to determine specifically who are more likely to perceive household chores hours as unfair. Daily stress and depleted psychological resources may be necessary to understand why perceived fairness differs according to socio-economic status

New Perspectives on the Evolution of Women’s Cooperation

New Perspectives on the Evolution of Women’s Cooperation

A holistic, evolutionary framework about human cooperation must incorporate information about women’s cooperative behaviour. Yet, most empirical research on human cooperation has centered on men’s behaviour or been derived from experimental studies conducted in western, industrialized populations.