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Abstract
Role salience—the importance of a role to one’s identity—has been discussed as a meaningful component of many work-family phenomena. Yet, scholars have primarily studied role salience in a tangential manner, often treating it as a factor to be controlled for or examining isolated role salience effects. Additionally, work-family research has largely focused on individuals despite the prevalence of dual-earner couples. To further our understanding of how role saliences operate within the spousal relationship, I draw from identity theory to investigate whether profiles of work and family role saliences occur for two unique samples of dual-earner couples with children. Latent profile analysis was used to explore the nature of the role salience profiles as well as their association with gender role beliefs, division of labor, work-family conflict, and well-being outcomes pertaining to the division of labor. My results provide insight into how role salience influences work-family experiences.