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Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance
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Work/family border theory as mentioned in this paper is a new theory about work/family balance that addresses how domain integration and segmentation, border creation and management, border-crosser participation, and relationships between bordercrossers and others at work and home influence work and family balance.Abstract:
This article introduces work/family border theory - a new theory about work/family balance. According to the theory, people are daily border-crossers between the domains of work and family. The theory addresses how domain integration and segmentation, border creation and management, border-crosser participation, and relationships between border-crossers and others at work and home influence work/family balance. Propositions are given to guide future research.read more
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The Cross-Domain Effects of Work and Family Role Stressors on Public Employees in South Korea
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-level hierarchical linear model was used to take into account heterogeneity across families and individuals to investigate the cross-domain effects of work and family role stressors in the public sector.
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The effect of emotional intelligence on police officers’ work–life balance: The moderating role of organizational support
TL;DR: Work-life balance is a main concern for employees and employers alike, because a work-life imbalance can cause stress and health-related problems among workers as mentioned in this paper. But it is difficult to find the optimal balance between work and personal life.
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Daily effects of continuous ICT demands on work-family conflict: Negative spillover and role conflict.
TL;DR: A daily diary study to investigate how different types of daily ICT demands experienced during work hours and after work influence work-family conflict (WFC) in the evening revealed that differenttypes of I CT demands experienced at work have idiosyncratic impacts on WFC.
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Gender differences in young adults’ inclination to sacrifice career opportunities in the future for family reasons: comparative study with university students from Nairobi, Madrid, and Reykjavik
José Andrés Fernández-Cornejo,Lorenzo Escot,Jane Kabubo-Mariara,Bethuel Kinyanjui Kinuthia,Guðný Björk Eydal,Tómas Bjarnason +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a survey conducted among a sample of 2383 university students who attended three universities: University of Nairobi, University of Iceland, and Complutense University of Madrid, found that young women (on average) still have a greater tendency than young men to make sacrifices in the future in their working careers in order to achieve a better work-family balance.
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On the downside of mobile communication: An experimental study about the influence of setting-inconsistent pressure on employees’ emotional well-being
TL;DR: Results indicated that pressure to be available beyond work–home boundaries significantly increased negative affect but had no influence on positive affect, and contrary to expectations, employees’ stress resilience did not moderate this effect.
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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
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Acts of meaning
TL;DR: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings, and only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can be grasped.