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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"working mothers"”.
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Career and Family: A Qualitative Study of Working Mothers
… of this dissertation was to explore the lives of working mothers. The dramatic increase of mothers in the workforce in the past 40 years has led to an increasingly common lifestyle: women filling the roles of mother and professional concurrently. This dissertation used the personal narrative …
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Back to Work: The Effects of Goal Conflict on Working Mothers
… four topics to build a workshop that will help working mothers bounce back from adversity, develop their signature strengths, avoid negative thinking traps as well as minimize the number of decisions they need to make with a technique called satisficing. This approach will invite organizations …
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Postpartum Working Mothers: The Maternal Employee-Employer Relationship and U.S. Leave Policy
… studies have examined the relationship between working mothers and employers and the contributions of this relationship on mothers. Therefore, this dissertation explored postpartum mother’s relationship with their employers. METHODOLOGY: To gain an understanding of the experiences of working …
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The Impact of Art Based Positive Psychology on Stress Reduction for Working Mothers
… therapy, combined with positive psychology, on working mothers’ perceptions of their ability to manage stress by using the coping skills they already had developed. It was found that when working mothers identified their strengths in Positive Psychology questionnaires and by creating images of …
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Understanding the experiences of working mothers in financial services toward family supportive practices
… study sought to understand the experiences of working mothers regarding the family supportive policies and practices offered within a financial services company in Cape Town. The financial services sector in South Africa is still regarded as male dominated. The results from 17 in-depth semi …
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Working mothers self care practices as a coping mechanism: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… phenomenological study of professional working mothers' self-care and coping Objective: This study explores the experiences and understandings of self-care and coping in professional working women in South Africa who are first-time mothers. Working mothers find it difficult to balance …
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The relationship between central life interests and work-family conflict amongst single working mothers
… conflict amongst a group of twenty single working mothers with pre-school age children. Dubin's (1992) theory of Central Life Interests was utilised to fully understand how the differential importance of the roles played by the women informed the level and nature of the conflict …
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The impact of family-friendly policies and practices on working mothers and pregnant women
… contain women that are either pregnant or mothers of young children. This research study investigates the impact that organisational family-friendly policies and practices have on the organisational commitment of pregnant women and working mothers. The three-component model of …
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Interrole Conflict, Resolution Strategy, Locus of Control, and Sex Role Orientation Among Married Working Mothers.
… resolving this conflict in a sample of married working mothers. Specifically, it examines the relationship between these variables and sex role orientation and locus of control, two cognitive social learning person variables (Mischel, 1973), which represent well-learned patterns of perceiving …
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Exploring the experiences of working mothers navigating the kaleidoscope career post COVID-19 pandemic : a case study.
The attrition of working mothers in technology workplaces is a pressing issue that demands attention from IT, HR, and D&I leaders who strive to forge inclusive environments within predominantly male industries. Through this study, I illuminated the multifaceted challenges these working mothers …
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Impact of a brief exercise adherence intervention on physical activity and quality of life among working mothers
Working mothers face numerous exercise barriers, and thus exhibit high levels of inactivity. The stress associated with fulfilling multiple roles can also compromise quality of life within this population. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a brief exercise adherence …
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How Working Mothers Negotiate Work-Family Conflict: An Exploration of Work Satisfaction, Home Life Satisfaction, and Partner Supportiveness
… Quantitative analysis of the data suggests that working mothers in same-sex partnerships feel more supported by their partner than women in opposite-sex partnerships. Feelings of partner supportiveness are a positive indicator of home life satisfaction, and home life satisfaction is positively …
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"I Have To Be Everything" Voices of International Working Mothers: Negotiating Work-Life Balance in the United States
… addressed the effect of work-life conflict for working adults and the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of immigrants. However, rarely does this research explore how working adults, especially women, develop solutions to those work-life tensions. Previous literature is typically silent …
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Child care affordability moderates the association between work-schedule flexibility and quality of life in working mothers of young children.
Research indicates that working mothers of young children are at a heightened risk for negative outcomes resulting from work-family conflict. This study examined the associations between work-schedule flexibility, child care affordability, and quality of life in working mothers of young children …
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The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children and the labor conditions of their working mothers
While working mothers with school-aged children make up 78.6% labor force, finding suitable, available, affordable childcare is still significant challenge. Even though after-school programs (hereafter ASPs) and other types of childcare arrangements have been implemented, childcare for school-aged …
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Working mothers and lockdown: a thematic analysis study using the four existential lifeworlds to explore the lived experience of school closures during COVID-19
… despite the claim in the UK media, not all working mothers returned to the stereotypical ‘1950s housewife’. The current study was undertaken to explore and give voice to the holistic, lived experience of working mothers of primary school-aged children when the schools were closed during the …
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Building Agency Through Sensemaking: The Transformational Journey and Identity Development Process of Working Mother Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic
<p>Working mothers in America have long juggled a multitude of responsibilities while navigating several systemic barriers in the very society that claims to support them. The COVID-19 pandemic had an outsized impact on mothers when children were sent home from daycares and schools to reduce the …
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