The anticipated work-family conflict of future business managers: Does gender and maternal employment matter?

Anticipated Regret in Time-based Work-family Conflict

Purpose – The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the role of anticipated regret in time-based work-family conflict decisions. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 90 working parents responded to a decision making problem describing a time-based conflict between a work event and a family event. Participants’ preference for which event to attend constituted the dependent vari...

The Influence of Home Permeability on Work-to-family Conflict: a Matter of Preferences and Gender?

the study of work-family conflict and family-work conflict due to work alienation

this paper aims at studying the effects of work/family conflict and family/ work conflict as a result of work alienation. some theories of goffman, duxbury and higgins, kirchmeyer and cohen, merton, inglehart and faunce are applied in the study. the research is conducted through a survey method. stratified random sampling has been used for selection of the samples. main data collection method f...

The association between retirement and emotional well-being: does prior work-family conflict matter?

OBJECTIVE This study investigates whether the association between retirement and emotional well-being depends on prior experience of work-family conflict. METHODS We use data from the 1993 and 2004 waves of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to estimate linear regression models of 2 dimensions of emotional well-being-depressive symptoms and positive psychological functioning. We also use fixed ...

Gender, Beliefs about Spouse’s Work-Family Conflict, and Relationship Quality

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...