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Jobs and Family Stress and Women's Work Performance.

PB90154600

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Mansfield, P. K.; Vicary, J. R.
Page Count	204
Abstract	Data were gathered concerning coping behaviors as indicated by accident rates, illness, or drug and alcohol abuse in an effort to determine more completely the roles played by home and work factors in working women's job performance. A process model was proposed which suggested that work and home environments were related to stress and therefore to certain repertoires of behaviors in a manner which reflected individual differences. These relationships were tested by measuring workplace stress and satisfaction factors, home stress and satisfaction factors, personal factors, and dysfunctional coping behaviors. Discriminant analyses were used to identify subgroupings of subjects according to their work and home environments and particular coping repertoires. The results indicated that 83% of the sample considered themselves in good or excellent health. Role strain and family stress were the predictors more frequently related to health dependent variables. Women in different family configurations experienced significantly different levels of family satisfaction but not of family stress. Work environment was often as important as home environment in determining the levels of home and family satisfaction and stress experienced by employed women.
Keywords	Stress(Psychology) Family relations Employment Females Roles(Behavior) Quality of life Attitude surveys Job stress Job satisfaction Family life Women
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	92B - Psychology 92C - Social Concerns 57T - Psychiatry
Corporate Authors	Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199009

Jobs and Family Stress and Women's Work Performance.

Jobs and Family Stress and Women's Work Performance.
PB90154600

Publication Date	1989
Personal Author	Mansfield, P. K.; Vicary, J. R.
Page Count	204
Abstract	Data were gathered concerning coping behaviors as indicated by accident rates, illness, or drug and alcohol abuse in an effort to determine more completely the roles played by home and work factors in working women's job performance. A process model was proposed which suggested that work and home environments were related to stress and therefore to certain repertoires of behaviors in a manner which reflected individual differences. These relationships were tested by measuring workplace stress and satisfaction factors, home stress and satisfaction factors, personal factors, and dysfunctional coping behaviors. Discriminant analyses were used to identify subgroupings of subjects according to their work and home environments and particular coping repertoires. The results indicated that 83% of the sample considered themselves in good or excellent health. Role strain and family stress were the predictors more frequently related to health dependent variables. Women in different family configurations experienced significantly different levels of family satisfaction but not of family stress. Work environment was often as important as home environment in determining the levels of home and family satisfaction and stress experienced by employed women.
Keywords	Stress(Psychology) Family relations Employment Females Roles(Behavior) Quality of life Attitude surveys Job stress Job satisfaction Family life Women
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	92B - Psychology 92C - Social Concerns 57T - Psychiatry
Corporate Authors	Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	199009