scholarly journals Scaling Back and Finding Flexibility: Gender Differences in Parents’ Strategies to Manage Work–Family Conflict

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Young
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Stress And Health

Studies show that fathers report work–family conflict levels comparable to mothers. The authors examine gender differences in work-related strategies used to ease such conflicts.Theauthorsalsotestwhetherthepresence of young children at home shapes parents’ use of different strategies. They address these focal questions using panel data from the Canadian Work ,Stress, and Health study(N=306fathers,474mothers).Theauthorsfindthatmotherswith young children are more likely to scale back on work demands when compared with fathers with young children, but mothers and fathers with older children are equally likely to pursue these strategies. Furthermore, women with young children and men with older children are more likely to seek increased schedule control as a result of work–family conflict when compared with their parent counterparts. The authors situate these findings in the vast literature on the consequences of work–family conflict.

Control and the Health Effects of Work–Family Conflict: A Longitudinal Test of Generalized Versus Specific Stress Buffering

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-341
Author(s):  
Philip Badawy ◽  
Scott Schieman
Keyword(s):  
Health Effects ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Stress Buffering ◽  
Resource Schedule ◽  
Work Family

The stress associated with work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) is well documented. However, surprisingly little is known about the resources that moderate the effects of work–family conflict on health over time. Using four waves of panel data from the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (2011–2017; n = 11,349 person-wave observations), we compare how a core psychosocial resource (personal mastery) and a salient organizationally based resource (schedule control) moderate the health effects of WFC and FWC. After establishing these health effects related to distress and physical symptoms, we discover that mastery has generalized stress-buffering functions whereby it alleviates the health effects of both WFC and FWC. In contrast, schedule control has asymmetrical moderating functions: It attenuates the health effects of WFC only. These findings elaborate and sharpen the scope of resources as moderators in the stress process model—and we integrate these ideas with other conceptual models like the job demands-resources model.

Controlling or Channeling Demands? How Schedule Control Influences the Link Between Job Pressure and the Work-Family Interface

2020 ◽  
pp. 073088842096565
Author(s):  
Philip J. Badawy ◽  
Scott Schieman
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Schedule Control ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Regression Techniques ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Fixed Effects Regression ◽  
Stress And Health ◽  
Moderating Role

Schedule control is theorized as a job resource that should reduce the extent to which work demands bleed into nonwork time and decrease work-to-family conflict. However, schedule control might also come with greater expectations that workers fully devote themselves to work even during non-conventional work times; in this scenario, schedule control might act as a channel through which job demands can more easily permeate nonwork roles and generate conflict. Drawing on four waves of panel data from the Canadian Work, Stress, and Health Study (2011–2017), the authors use fixed effects regression techniques to discover some contradictions in the resource functions of schedule control. The authors find that schedule control exacerbates the effect of job pressure on role blurring, and these observed downsides of schedule control are stronger for women. By discovering gendered effects in the moderating role of schedule control, this study sharpens prevailing knowledge about its functions as a resource and the ways that it might channel stressful work-related demands.

Gender Differences and Similarities in Coping Responses to Anticipated Work-Family Conflict

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim A. Burley
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Coping ◽  
Coping Responses ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
Gender And Work ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationships among gender, coping, and anticipated work-family conflict for career-bound men and women. 256 university students enrolled in a university in northern Louisiana participated. Multivariate and univariate analyses were used to examine (a) potential gender differences with respect to anticipated work-family conflict and work-family coping mechanisms and (b) the role coping processes may play in mediating the relationship between gender and anticipated work-family conflict. The results indicated significant differences between the sexes with respect to anticipated work-family conflict as well as to expected use of various coping strategies to manage anticipated work-family conflict. Contrary to expectations, coping strategies did not mediate the relationship between gender and work-family conflict. The issue of coping as a mediator variable as well as the study's primary implications for students and professional educators are addressed.

Spillover and Crossover Effects of Work-Family Conflict among Married and Cohabiting Couples

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Yucel ◽  
Beth A. Latshaw
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Crossover Effects ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Work Family

The present study uses Wave 8 of the German Family Panel to test the spillover and crossover effects of work-family conflict on job satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and mental health for individuals (actor effects) as well as their spouses/partners (partner effects) in dual-earning couples. We further contribute by assessing whether the results vary by gender and union type. Results suggest that among married couples, for job satisfaction, there are no gender differences in actor effects (but gender differences in partner effects), and actor and partner effects remain distinct. For relationship satisfaction, there are no gender differences in actor or partner effects, but both effects remain distinct. For mental health, however, there are gender differences in actor effects (but not in partner effects), and both effects remain distinct. Among cohabitors, there are no differences in actor effects by gender, and adding in partner effects does not significantly improve the models predicting all three outcomes. Some results also suggest differences in relationship dynamics between married and cohabiting couples.

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