Relationships of job and family involvement, family social support, and work-family conflict with job and life satisfaction
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A model of the relationship between work and family that incorporates variables from both the work-family conflict and social support literatures was developed and empirically tested. This model related bidirectional work-family conflict, family instrumental and emotional social support, and job and family involvement to job and life satisfaction. Data came from 163 workers who were living with at least 1 family member. Results suggested that relationships between work and family can have an important effect on and life satisfaction and that the level of involvement the worker assigns to work and family roles is associated with this relationship. The results also suggested that the relationship between work and family can be simultaneously characterized by conflict and support. Higher levels of work interfering with family predicted lower levels of family emotional and instrumental support. Higher levels of family emotional and instrumental support were associated with lower levels of family interfering with work. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1996
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Effects of alternative modeling strategies on outcomes of interpersonal-skills training
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The effects of two alternative modeling strategies - using multiple scenarios and combining negative and positive model displays - on outcomes of a behavior modeling training program were explored. Trainees (N = 72) participated in a program on assertive communication structured to allow for a controlled experimental design that crossed scenario variability (one vs. multiple scenarios) with model display variability (positive model displays vs. negative model displays). Outcomes assessed included trainee reactions, learning, and retention and behavioral measures of reproduction and generalization. The effects of multiple scenarios were negligible, but the positive and negative combination of model displays had a significant positive effect on trainee generalization and a significant negative effect on reproduction. Implications for future modeling research and practice are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1992
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Job and life satisfaction: a reevaluation of the strength of the relationship and gender effects as a function of the date of the study
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Through literature searches in psychology, sociology, counseling, management, and leisure, we found 34 studies (combined n = 19,811) reporting relationships between job and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous reviews (e.g., Rice, Near, & Hunt, 1980), this meta-analysis found sizeable overlap between work and nonwork experiences. Furthermore, although this correlation was substantially greater for men than for women in studies published prior to 1974, the difference disappeared in studies published after 1974. Demographic changes among female workers and changes in the relative importance of work to women's lives were suggested as explanations for the larger correlation observed for women in more recent studies. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1989
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