Managing work and family: Do control strategies help?

Managing work and family: Do control strategies help?

How can we effectively manage competing obligations from work and family without becoming overwhelmed? This question inspires the current study by examining control strategies that may facilitate better work-life balance, with a specific focus on the role of lowered aspirations and positive reappraisals, attitudes that underlie adaptive coping behaviors. Data from the Midlife in the United Stat...

Developmental Psychology Managing Work and Family: Do Control Strategies Help?

Managing work, family, and school roles: disengagement strategies can help and hinder.

The extent to which individuals manage multiple role domains has yet to be fully understood. We advance past research by examining the effect of interrole conflict among three very common and critically important life roles-work, family, and school-on three corresponding types of satisfaction. Further, we examine individual-based techniques that can empower people to manage multiple roles. In d...

When do open-loop strategies for combustion control work?

This paper addresses open-loop control strategies that involve a low frequency modulation of the fuel injection for suppression of pressure oscillations in combustion systems. Such a strategy has been employed in a number of recent investigations including [1]-[5]. Using a physically based model, analytical explanations for the effectiveness of such a low pulsing strategy are provided in this p...

Vocabulary Learning Strategies: Do They Help Iranian EFL Learners to Overcome Vocabulary Learning Difficulties?

The present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in English Translation and English Literature at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, who were taking “Reading Comprehension II” course. In ord...