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Work Separation Demands and Spouse Psychological Well-Being
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Orthner, Dennis K.; Rose, Roderick – Family Relations, 2009
Using family resilience and ecological theories, we examine the relationship between partner work-required travel separations and spouse psychological well-being. The study examines the role of work-organization-provided supports for families and of informal support networks, including marital satisfaction, as factors that can reduce the risks for…
Descriptors: Spouses, Social Support Groups, Travel, Marital Satisfaction
The Influence of Work-Related Stressors on Clergy Husbands and Their Wives.
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Morris, Michael Lane; Blanton, Priscilla White – Family Relations, 1994
Assessed predictive power of 5 work-related stressors identified in clergy family literature on criterion variables of marital, parent, and life satisfaction among 272 clergy husbands and their wives from 6 denominations. Findings supported hypotheses that work-related stressors were inversely related to marital, parental, and life satisfaction…
Descriptors: Clergy, Life Satisfaction, Marital Satisfaction, Parents
The Impact of Job Insecurity on Marital and Family Relationships.
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Larson, Jeffry H.; And Others – Family Relations, 1994
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.…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Job Satisfaction, Job Security, Stress Variables
Work/Family Role Strain among Employed Parents.
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Kelly, Robert F.; Voydanoff, Patricia – Family Relations, 1985
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)
Descriptors: Coping, Employed Parents, Family Role, Job Satisfaction
Influence Strategies Used When Couples Make Work-Family Decisions and Their Importance for Marital Satisfaction.
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Zvonkovic, Anisa M.; And Others – Family Relations, 1994
Investigated how marital partners influenced each other concerning work and family decisions and connected influence strategies to martial satisfaction in 61 married couples who had faced work-family decisions in past 6 months. Found that gender role ideology and indirect influence strategies were related to marital satisfaction. Variables related…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Family Life, Influences, Marital Satisfaction
Work Roles as Stressors in Corporate Families.
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Voydanoff, Patricia – Family Relations, 1980
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)
Descriptors: Career Change, Coping, Family Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Work and Family in the Virtual Office: Perceived Influences of Mobile Telework.
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Hill, E. Jeffrey; And Others – Family Relations, 1996
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…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Family Environment, Family Life, Family Structure