Work-life balance, identity salience and break taking behaviors in Indian expatriates

This study focuses on the challenges faced by Indian expatriates working in the IT industry in the USA. It specifically examines participants’ work-nonwork role relationship quality, identity salience, and break taking behaviors. The sample for this study consisted of 415 Indian expatriates working in the IT industry. A computational tool called PROCESS was used to test the path analysis-based moderation and mediation analyses and their integrated form of conditional process models to determine whether work-nonwork role relationship quality mediates the relationship between work-related stressor and wellbeing. The relationships among work-related stressors, work-nonwork role relationship quality, and wellbeing were examined, while also considering the conditioning effects of identity salience and break taking behavior. Results showed that work-nonwork role relationship quality completely conditioned the relationship between work-related stressors and wellbeing. Identity salience and break taking behaviors also reduced the strength of this relationship. The present study serves as a starting point to investigate further the complex relationships involving stressors, work/nonwork roles, work/nonwork identity salience, and break taking behaviors among Indian expatriates. The results of this study may also help American companies understand complex work/nonwork role relationship challenges faced by this specialized workforce.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Bangalore Vijayakumar, Pooja

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cunningham, Christopher J. L.
• Weathington, Bart L.; O'Leary, Brian J.
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Identity (Psychology)
• Identification (Psychology)
• Intercultural communication
• Aliens -- Cultural assimilation -- United States

Licence

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/168

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1303