This article focuses on midlife parental role satisfaction using date from a culturally diverse sample of 490 Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, parents. Results show that most parents are happy in their roles. Income satisfaction, intergenerational relationship quality, parents' main activity, health, age, ethnic background, and…

Data from two affiliated national surveys were used to examine distribution of work-family spillover among working adults. Analyses testing family life course hypotheses indicated self-reported negative and positive spillover between work and family were not randomly distributed within the labor force. Age was found to have a persistent…

Relationship of social support, role satisfaction, and self-efficacy to measures of role strain was explored in married, employed women with preschool aged children. Self efficacy in work and parental role proved to be a significant predictor of work-family conflict and role overload. Organizational support on role conflict was mediated by job…

Investigated how 657 fathers' job satisfaction and job stress were related to four domains: individual, parent-child, marital, and child. Results showed that the job affected all four domains. Job stress and job satisfaction were directly related to family functioning. Discusses implications for families with school-age children. (RJM)

Interviewed 32 registered family day care (FDC) providers concerning their evaluations of problems; satisfactions; how FDC affects their personal life; their children's experiences; and how families organize time, space, and personal belongings. Also considered providers' evaluations of FDC safety. Findings have implications for planning family…

Examined relationship between perceived stress resulting from job insecurity and marital and family functioning. Data from 111 married couples in which at least 1 spouse was working in insecure job environment showed that job insecurity stress was related in systematic way to marital and family dysfunction and number of family problems reported.…

Explored determinants of work/family role strain using 1979 questionnaire data from 468 employed parents. Examination of individual-level, family-level, and work-related variables revealed that work-related variables, as a group, had greatest impact on job tension. (Author/NRB)

Investigated influence of maternal employment on maternal departure and reunion behavior during infant's first year among 60 infants and their mothers. Mothers who worked more hours were more autonomous and less anxious upon departure from their infant, and mothers who were satisfied with their employment role were more autonomous and less anxious…

Examines the impact of combined work/family responsibilities on single-parent employees. Results indicated that parent employees, but particularly single female parents, were at risk for high job-family role strain and reduced levels of well-being. In spite of increased strain, however, single parents exhibited high levels of job satisfaction and…

Discusses the impact of employment insecurity, career mobility, job content and satisfaction, amount and scheduling of work time, geographic mobility, and the wife's role on corporate families. Analysis is limited to male executives and their families. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, May 1980. (Author)

Examined correlates of job-family strain in 160 Canadian employed single mothers with preschoolers. Strain was positively related to hours worked, number of children, and child's age and negatively associated with more positive attitudes to work and higher work satisfaction. Child care variables were not associated with strain. (Author/NB)

Explored influences of mobile telework on family life as reported by teleworkers in a large national corporation. Compared this group to office workers within the same company. Teleworkers reported greater work flexibility. Some described positive family influences, whereas others revealed family problems arising from blurred lines between work…