The impact of work flexibility on home and work satisfaction of employed mothers

Family life satisfaction, work satisfaction, and work flexibility was assessed for a selected sample of employed mothers of school age children. The mothers were divided into flexible and inflexible groups based on answers to the question, "How flexible is your job?" The Work, Home, and Family Questionnaire was distributed to 593 mothers in the North Texas area. The flexible mothers scored significantly higher on all five overall questions: overall satisfaction with family life; overall satisfaction with work life; overall effect family life has on work performance; overall effect work has on family life; and difficulty of combining work and family responsibilities. Although not significantly different, the flexible mothers had higher mean scores on all but four of the family aspects and all but three of the work aspects. Nine of the work aspects showed significant differences between flexible and inflexible mothers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Consumer Science

Grantor

Texas Woman's University

Year dc:date.issued

1991

Author dc:creator

• Stein, Mary Jo

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Chenoweth, Lillian

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Martin, Jennifer
• Engelbrecht, Jo Ann

• Flexible mothers
• Inflexible mothers
• Work-life balance

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/11274/17212

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:twu-ir.tdl.org:11274/17212