Naslov
The relationship between the perceptions of marital roles and work-family conflict: A dyadic approach

Autori
Šimunić, Ana ; Gregov, Ljiljana ; Pandža, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
15th Conference of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Maastricht, Nizozemska, 25.05.2011. - 28.05.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
work-family conflict; Marital roles; Gender ideology; Social support; Striving for achievement; Dyadic analysis

Sažetak
There is a small number of studies that take into account the characteristics of both marital partners (Streich et al., 2007) in examining work-family conflict. If we take into consideration that this conflict depends on the level of perceived support from partners (Adams et al., 1996), it is obvious that an effect of partners exists. Also, the level of support needs may differ by gender (Perewé and Carlson, 2002), and gender ideology (Mickelson, 2006). In most papers dealing with the interaction between spouses, attempts were made to address the problems at the individual level (Fagan and Press, 2008). As a more reasonable approach to the analysis of data on a dyadic level, this paper uses so-called associated regression analyses to test the effects of actors and partners in work-family conflict. The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of interactions between the perception of social support from the supervisor and family, aspects of marriage traditionalism (gender role ideology and striving for achievement), and the quality of family functioning to the perception of work-family conflict. This study employed a sample of 176 employed married couples within areas of central and western Herzegovina and central Dalmatia. The results show that men who evaluate their marriage as traditional experience greater work-to-family conflict, while this conflict is greater in women who estimated their marriage as egalitarian . Along with the obtained actor effects, mainly of perceived social support from supervisor and family, to work-to-family and family-to-work conflict, partner effects were also obtained. It was shown that higher levels of supervisor support for women means a higher level of work-to-family conflict among men. Furthermore, the more traditional partners of the respondents are, the higher is their perceived level of work-to-family conflict. The higher the levels of perceived quality of family functioning in men, the lower the levels of family-to-work conflict. Striving for achievement is a positive predictor of family-to-work conflict. In general, the results show that the perceptions of the male spouses are more related to womens’ work-family conflict than vice versa.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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