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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"work and family roles"”.
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Work and family roles, gender, socioeconomic status and health : a study of employed Canadian men and women
… vary in terms of gender, socioeconomic status, and life stage. Results indicated that compared to triple role women, women occupying a single role or two roles in 1994/95 reported poorer health status in 1996/97. This relationship held true for women in varying life stage and economic …
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Work and Family Roles: A Qualitative Study of Women and Men in Beginning Career and Family Stages
Interviews with 24 women and men, ages 27 through 30, led to a perception of this cohort as a distinct subculture in our society. They are enabled by recent social changes which permit expanded roles, yet restricted by the gender-role expectations of former generations. While women are …
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Work and Family Conflict: Expectations and Planning Among Female College Students
… are anticipating involvement in both career and family. The competing demands of family and work often result in work-family conflict. A survey was administered to 124 female college students exploring the importance they place on work and family roles, the expectations they have for …
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Work-family balance and religion: a resource based perspective
It is increasingly recognized that work and family roles do not represent fully separate life domains (Voydanoff, 2004). This is one reason, why occupational health researchers and practitioners are working to understand and facilitate balance between work and nonwork roles. Most existing …
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Life role salience and expectations about the work-family interface by Bailey Kropman.
… that young adults attribute to their future work and family roles and examines whether this helps predict significant variance in expectations about future work-family conflict and work-family enrichment. Usable responses to an online survey were received from 448 university students at the …
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Maternal Employment: Investigating the Links Among Family and Job Characteristics, Emotional States, Social Supports, and Child Rearing Practices
… associated with the incompatibility between work and family roles as a possible mediator of this process, (2) employed mothers' satisfactions with social supports as another possible mediator, and (3) the relationships among maternal employment characteristics, emotional state variables, …
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Attitudes to multiple role planning (ATMRP) among engineering students
… toward planning for future involvement with work and family. Individuals with a more realistic attitude toward multiple role involvement are more likely to successfully manage a multiple role lifestyle. Exploratory factor analysis showed the multidimensionality of the ATMRP scale. The five …
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Gendered Devotions to Work and Family: Implications for Work/Family Conflict among Ghanaian Professionals
… the gendered nature of Ghanaian institutions of work and family, together with the traditional gender division of labour, gender ideologies and gender accountability in Ghana produces gendered devotions to work and family. These gendered devotions shape the work/family conflict experiences of …
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When workplace family-support is misallocated: The importance of value congruence and fairness perceptions in predicting work-family conflict and job attitudes
To better manage our work demands and family demands, we often erect mental or physical “borders” to help us provide order to our experience. However, the preference for how we preserve these borders differs across individuals (i.e., preference to segment or integrate work and family roles). …
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Empowering women to become superintendents in Oklahoma: A constructivist grounded theory
… dissertation in practice sought to understand the empowerment process experienced by women who became superintendents in Oklahoma. The constructivist grounded theory research design aligns to the social constructivist worldview of the researcher. The following research question framed …
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Anticipated work-family conflict among STEM students: the role of core self-evaluations and parental role modelling
… study examined the role of core self-evaluations and parental role modelling on STEM students anticipated work-family conflict. Anticipated work-family conflict is the conflict students anticipate experiencing between their work and family roles in the future. Core self-evaluations is an …
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The relationship between the use of flexible workplace arrangements and satisfaction with work-family balance amongst working fathers
… the relationship between the use of flexible work arrangements and satisfaction with work-family balance amongst working fathers in South Africa. Two types of flexible work arrangements were examined. Formal flexible work arrangements included flextime, flexplace and paternity leave. Informal …
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The Multiple Roles of Women Pursuing Doctoral Studies
… in the employment of women in administrative and managerial careers have drawn attention to a need for research that examines the interdependency of work and family roles, a need that is particularly crucial in the area of academic administration. This was a qualitative study of the strategies …
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`We Are All Stories in the End, I Want Mine to be a Good One': College Students' Work-Family Expectations and the Role of Educational Experiences
… in the experiences of people who combine paid work with non-work roles (e.g., spouse, parent, eldercare provider), relatively little attention has been given to the expectations that people hold prior to occupying these roles, such as the amount of role conflict or fulfillment anticipated as a …
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A "Holy Grail" of Work and Family Life? When and How Schedule Control Functions as a Resource
… resource used to determine the timing of paid work and has been touted as a “holy grail” among work-family scholars and practitioners. While prior research has demonstrated that schedule control is linked with better work-life balance and health, it may not be an unfettered job reward. With …
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Social Structure and Anger: Social Psychological Mediators
… mediators, suggested by equity theory and research on distress, of the relationship between social structure and anger. A broader social structure and personality approach to anger is compared with the equity and stress models proposed. Among social structural locations, anger varies …
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Perceived Work Factors and Parental Engagement: The Mediating Role of Marital Conflict
… predominately focuses on individual or family level factors that influence parenting behaviors. The field can benefit from focusing on factors outside the family that influence family roles and behavior. Utilizing a symbolic interactionist and gender perspective, this study examined how …
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Exploring the coping strategies used by South African Hindu mothers to manage work-family conflict
… purpose of the exploration was to better understand the coping strategies that these mothers used to deal with their work and family role expectations. South African Hindu mothers are a subset of people who originate from traditional or collectivistic, cultural backgrounds, yet, live in a society …