Personal factors that influence meaning and prioritizatin in work-nonwork roles

The importance an individual places on one role over another is captured by a person’s identity salience, which can affect how work and nonwork roles are viewed and how one allocates time and resources to these roles. Within the literature there is a need to further understand what personal factors may influence the development of a person’s identity salience and ultimately contribute to the choices people make surrounding work and nonwork domains. The present study was designed to assess the impact of four higher order values that contribute to a person’s identity salience. Also examined was the potential impact of identity salience on the way individuals prioritize work and nonwork roles. Results indicated that coll ectively, values play a significant role in the formation of identity salience, and both work and nonwork identity salience significantly influence role prioritization. This study contributes to the work-nonwork roles literature and improves our understanding of why and how identity salience factors into the role management process.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Benitez, Lindsay Ware

Contributors dc:contributor

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

• Identity (Psychology)
• Work (Psychological aspects)
• Work and family
• Life

Licence

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

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/195

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1335