FRIDAY, March 7, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- Home, not work, is where the heart is, says a Virginia Tech study that finds more people consider home a greater source of satisfaction than work.
While the ranks of women workers grew over the past 30 years, those women did not increasingly look to work as a haven, says a study in the current issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.
The study examined more than two decades of surveys of American adults and looked at four categories of workers with families: those who saw home as a haven; those who saw work as a haven; those who were satisfied with both; and those with little satisfaction at home or work.
The study of 9,761 men and women found no change over those two decades in the number of men who found work more satisfying than home. However, it found a slight decline in the number of women who find work more satisfying than home.
Overall, the study found the number of both men and women who considered home to be a haven increased from 32 percent to 40 percent. Those who considered work a haven decreased from 16 percent to 11 percent.
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