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Jaeckel, Dalit; Seiger, Christine P.; Orth, Ulrich; Wiese, Bettina S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The present study assesses the effects of a lack of social support reciprocity at work on employees' occupational self-efficacy beliefs. We assume that the self-efficacy effects of received support and support reciprocity depend on the specific work context (e.g., phase in the process of organizational socialization). 297 women who returned to…
Descriptors: Employees, Employed Women, Mothers, Self Efficacy
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Braunstein-Bercovitz, Hedva; Frish-Burstein, Smadar; Benjamin, Benny A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The purpose of the current study was to examine the role that personal resources (person-environment [PE] congruence and personality types associated with resilience) and work-family conflict (WFC) play in the sense of well-being (as reflected by burnout and life-satisfaction) of mothers of young children. A sample of 146 mothers holding demanding…
Descriptors: Conflict, Family Work Relationship, Employed Women, Mothers
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Powell, Gary N.; Eddleston, Kimberly A. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
According to survey responses from 201 business owners, although the firms of male business owners were more successful than those of female business owners on frequently used measures of business success (business performance compared to competitors and sales), business owner sex did not predict satisfaction with business success, supporting the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Females, Surveys, Comparable Worth
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Wiese, Bettina S.; Seiger, Christine P.; Schmid, Christian M.; Freund, Alexandra M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
The present paper deals with three positive facets of the work-family interplay, i.e., transfer of competencies, transfer of positive mood, and cross-domain compensation. The latter refers to the experience that engagement in one domain helps dealing with failures in the other domain. In two correlational studies (N[subscript 1] = 107 working…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Females, Psychological Patterns, Control Groups
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Shockley, Kristen M.; Allen, Tammy D. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Despite the positive press given to flexible work arrangements (FWA), empirical research investigating the link between the availability of these policies and work-family conflict is largely equivocal. The purpose of the present study was to begin to reconcile these mixed results through more precise measurement and the examination of moderators.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Conflict, Family Work Relationship, Working Hours
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Valcour, Monique; Ladge, Jamie J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study examined the effects of family and career path characteristics on objective and subjective career success among 916 employed mothers. Among family variables, age at first childbirth was positively related and career priority favoring the husband was negatively related to both income and subjective career success; number of children was…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mother Attitudes, Employed Women, Success