Assessing the Work and Family Role Expectations of Career-Oriented Men and Women: The Life Role Salience Scales

AbstractThe aim of this research was to determine the salience of work and family roles and to study the connection between role salience and the interference of different types of roles among working men and women. Self-assessment measurement scales were applied. The research involved 206 participants; 103 employed married couples from different regions of Croatia. The results show that roles closely connected to family are considered the most salient. However, men are mostly dedicated behaviourally to the role of a worker. Women dedicate more time and energy to the roles of a spouse, a parent, and a family member whereas men are more oriented towards the leisurite role. The highest level of conflict was perceived when it comes to work disturbing leisure. Gender differences appeared only for work-to-marriage conflict, with men reporting higher conflict than women. The research found proof of only some low correlations between the salience of different types of roles and work-family conflict.

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Meaningful Work and Family

The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.013.29 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 403-416

Author(s):

Evgenia I. Lysova

Keyword(s):

Meaningful Work ◽

Work And Family ◽

Future Research ◽

Family Role ◽

Role Salience ◽

Harmonious Passion ◽

Obsessive Passion ◽

The Family ◽

Work Family ◽

The Individual

Experiencing one’s work as meaningful is often assumed to benefit the individual, yet some scholars suggest that meaningful work can also be a very challenging experience, requiring individual sacrifice. These sacrifices may be borne by the family of the individual. The chapter reviews and integrates research on meaningful work, calling, and work–family interplay to better understand how the pursuit of meaningful work impacts one’s family. In so doing, it challenges overly positive perspectives on the outcomes of meaningful work, while revealing the scarcity of empirical research on the topic. To stimulate future research, person-related conditions are discussed, such as family role salience and identification, and harmonious passion and obsessive passion, in facilitating positive versus negative spillover between the work and family domain. The chapter concludes with a discussion of organization-related conditions shaping how meaningful work influences one’s family.

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Antecedents of work and family role expectations of college men.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/0893-3200.12.2.259 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 259-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Brian L. Thorn ◽

Lucia A. Gilbert

Keyword(s):

College Men ◽

Work And Family ◽

Role Expectations ◽

Family Role

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Role salience of dual-career women managers

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology ◽

10.4102/sajip.v28i3.65 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anthony V Naidoo ◽

Reyhana Jano

Keyword(s):

Women Managers ◽

Work And Family ◽

Married Women ◽

Work Role ◽

Dual Career ◽

Family Role ◽

Role Salience ◽

Career Women ◽

Work And Family Roles ◽

Career Salience

This study examines and contrasts the level of role participation, commitment and value expectation that dual career women invest in contending work and family roles. While the 162 married women managers were found to participate significantly more in the work role, they indicated greater commitment to and value expectation from the home and family role. A significant positive correlation between the commitment to the work role and commitment to the home and family role suggests that dual-career women may experience work and home as complimentary rather than conflicting roles. For dual-career women, work salience and career salience were found to be moderately correlated. Opsomming In hierdie studie word die vlakke van rol-deelname, rol-toegewydheid en rol-waardeverwagting wat dubbelloopbaan vroue onderskeidelik in die werk-en familierol investeer, gekonstrasteer. Terwyl dit geblyk het dat 162 getroude vroulike bestuurders beduidend meer deelneem in die werkrol, het hulle hoër toegewydheid en waardeverwagtings teenoor die huis-en-familie rol getoon. ‘n Beduidende positiewe korrelasie is gevind tussen toegewydheid tot die werksrol en toegewydheid tot die huis-en-familierol. Hierdie bevinding suggereer dat dubbelloopbaan vroue hulle werk en familie-rolle as komplimenterend eerder as konflikterend ervaar. Dit het verder geblyk dat werkrolbelangrikheid en loopbaanbelangrikheid matig gekorreleer is.

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Changing patterns of migration to Australia's Northern Territory: Evidence of new forms of escalator migration to frontier regions?

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v10i1.115 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 101-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Catherine Martel ◽

Andrew Taylor ◽

Dean Carson

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Life Events ◽

Career Advancement ◽

Work And Family ◽

Northern Territory ◽

Population Ageing ◽

Men And Women ◽

Working Lives ◽

Changing Patterns ◽

New Perspective

Building on Fielding’s idea of escalator regions as places where young people migrate (often temporarily) to get rapid career advancement, this paper proposes a new perspective on 'escalator migration' as it applies to frontier or remote regions in particular. Life events, their timing and iterations have changed in the thirty years since Fielding first coined the term ‘escalator region’, with delayed adulthood, multiple career working lives, population ageing and different dynamics between men and women in the work and family sphere. The object of this paper is to examine recent migration trends to Australia's Northern Territory for evidence of new or emerging 'escalator migrants'.

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Impact of Work and Family Role Demands on Work Life Conflict amongst Working Woman

Indian Journal Of Applied Research ◽

10.15373/2249555x/aug2013/110 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (8) ◽

pp. 11-13

Author(s):

Kaur, Anmol Preet ◽

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De K. K De K. K ◽

Tripathy Manas Ranjan

Keyword(s):

Work And Family ◽

Work Life ◽

Family Role ◽

Role Demands ◽

Working Woman ◽

Work Life Conflict

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Social Norms, Choice, and Work

10.1093/oso/9780190683023.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Christie Hartley

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Social Norms ◽

Division Of Labor ◽

Family Life ◽

Work And Family ◽

Personal Relationships ◽

The Political ◽

Liberal Democracies ◽

Men And Women ◽

Gendered Division Of Labor

In modern liberal democracies, the gendered division of labor is partially the result of men and women making different choices about work and family life, even if such choices stem from social norms about gender. The choices that women make relative to men’s disadvantage them in various ways: such choices lead them to earn less, enjoy less power and prestige in the labor market, be less able to participate in the political sphere on an equal basis, make them to some degree financially dependent on others, and leave them at a bargaining disadvantage and vulnerable in certain personal relationships. This chapter considers if and when the state should intervene to address women’s disadvantage and inequalities that are the result of gender specialization. It is argued that political liberals can and sometimes must intervene in the gendered division of labor when persons’ interests as free and equal citizens are frustrated.

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Action Regulation at the Work–Family Interface: Nomological Network and Work–Family Consequences

Journal of Business and Psychology ◽

10.1007/s10869-021-09751-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andreas Hirschi ◽

Nicola von Allmen ◽

Anne Burmeister ◽

Hannes Zacher

Keyword(s):

Goal Attainment ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Active Role ◽

Work And Family ◽

Family Role ◽

Individual Level ◽

Family Social Support ◽

The Usa ◽

Work Family ◽

Role Demands

AbstractPursuing personally valued goals in work and family is important for many people, yet research has only partially addressed how individuals can actively manage the work–family interface. We examined the role of action regulation at the work–family interface (AR-WF) as an integrated individual-level approach to attain favorable work–family outcomes through the selection and pursuit of goals at the work–family interface. We investigated the relation of AR-WF to theoretically derived correlates and outcomes in two time-lagged studies with samples from the USA and Germany, based on a newly developed and validated measure to assess AR-WF. Overall, results showed that AR-WF is positively related to dispositional self-regulation, work and family role commitment, work and family goal regulation, and work and family social support. In contrast, AR-WF was largely unrelated to work and family role demands and segmentation or integration boundary enactment. AR-WF further positively related to work and family goal attainment, as well as work–family enrichment beyond related constructs. However, AR-WF was also positively related to increased work-to-family conflict. We discuss how a focus on action regulation can be useful for attaining a better understanding of the active role that people play in managing multiple role demands at the work–family interface.

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