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Role Stressors

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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among role stressors, inter role conflict, and welfare and the controlling effects of spousal support and handling behaviors among employed parents in twin-earner families this replicative study was collected to compare results found from this Midwest sample to those of in Hong Kong. The study included 243 participants who completed the Work and Parenting Survey.
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Statement of Problem
The purpose of this study is to cover current research focusing on the work or family connection through an imitation of study of work and family role stressors of employed parents in Hong Kong. This study will develop the Work and Parenting Survey, used within study, to assess …show more content…

Perceptions within this theory, with role overwork and spillover, suggest that conquering multiple roles may add to what researchers describe as role stress and inter role conflict. Inter role conflict, which happens when work roles spillover to family roles and vice versa, has been the focus of significant research during the last. Figure 1 presents a conceptual model incorporating work and parental overload, inter role conflict and well-being. This model suggests that the effects of role stressors, identified within this paper as work and parental overload, may be curbed by spousal. This model further suggests that the effects of the inter role conflict and the stress apparent by the individual, will be moderated by various coping behaviors developed by that individual, effecting well-being, identified within this paper as job, family, or life satisfaction …show more content…

It has been found that job satisfaction is negatively correlated with, as well as with FWC. It has also been found that family satisfaction was significantly impacted by WFC. Furthermore, WFC was found to have a considerable, negative relationship to life satisfaction. Relationships between the satisfaction variables have also been observed. Job satisfaction has also been found to be positively related to life, while family satisfaction and life satisfaction have also been found to be considerably related. The relationship between job and family satisfaction was also examined by Crouter and Perry-Jenkins (1986), who found that when parents had high job satisfaction they also showed high family satisfaction. Children of these parents were also found to role better, in general, and then compared to children of parents not satisfied with their

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