Employment, stress, and family functioning
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Employment, stress, and family functioning
（Wiley series on studies in occupational stress）
Wiley, c1990
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Bibliography: p. 241-269
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Work stress is an expanding topic, and related issues external to the work place, such as the family, are becoming of major interest. This book reviews the available literature and, by the use of case studies, provides practical help to the professional.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Work, employment and family functioning: work and family in the twentieth century - a historical synopsis
- the importance of studying work and family functioning. Part 2 Work, employment and family functioning - conceptual and definitional issues: an "open systems" approach to employment and family functioning
- classifying events and their outcomes - stressors, stress and strain
- the effect of stressor type on the duration and nature of strain
- going beyond the family and employment systems. Part 3 Objective employment characteristics and marital functioning: temporal employment characteristics and marital functioning
- employment time and marital functioning
- shift work and marital functioning
- the "family work day"
- flexible work schedules and marital functioning
- job-related transfers and marital functioning
- objective employment characteristics and marital functioning. Part 4 Subjective employment experiences and marital functioning: job stress
- employment experiences
- job satisfaction and marital satisfaction
- perceived financial strain and marital functioning
- subjective employment experiences and marital functioning. Part 5 Wives' employment status and marital functioning: wives" employment status and wives" marital functioning
- wives' psychological well-being
- employed wives' global marital satisfaction
- wives' employment status and husbands' marital functioning
- status incompatibility - relative occupational status of spouses. Part 6 Wives' subjective employment experiences and marital functioning: wives' job experiences and psychological well-being
- the many roles of employed wives
- going beyond interrole conflict - additional role experiences. Part 7 Maternal employment and children's behaviour - new perspectives on an old phenomenon: maternal employment status and children's behaviour
- maternal employment status and mother-child interactions
- children's perceptions of maternal employment
- future directions for understanding and researching maternal employment. Part 8 Fathers' employment and children's behaviour: fathers' objective employment characteristics and their children
- intergenerational occupational choice - like father, like son?
- fathers' subjective work experiences and their children's behaviour. Part 9 Unemployment and family functioning: contrasting unemployment in the 1930s and 1980s
- unemployment and psychological well-being
- unemployment and family functioning. Part 10 Employment, unemployment and family functioning - concluding thoughts: conceptual issues in the interdependence between family and employment
- implications for research on employment and the family
- practical implications
- some remaining employment/family issues.
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