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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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Work-life balance: Does age matter?
TL;DR: Surveys conducted among 500 employees of the SME sector from Finland, Lithuania and Sweden identified a statistically significant difference: employees representing older age groups are more likely to indicate the maintenance of WLB; older workers more frequently do not agree that all workers have equal opportunities to benefit from flexible solutions aimed at ensuring the maintenanceof WLB.
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Linking boundary crossing from work to nonwork to work-related rumination across time: A variable- and person-oriented approach.
Ulla Kinnunen,Taru Feldt,Jessica de Bloom,Marjaana Sianoja,Kalevi Korpela,Sabine A. E. Geurts +5 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between boundary crossing behavior from work to non-work and work-related rumination (i.e., affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, and lack of psychological detachment from work during off-job time).
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When Work Is Home: Agency, Structure, and Contradictions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the work experiences of in-home day care providers, particularly their relationships with the parents of the children for whom they care throughout the day, and identify the characteristics of the relationships they have with the children they care for.
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The Role of Work-Nonwork Boundary Management in Work Stress Recovery
Ulla Kinnunen,Johanna Rantanen,Jessica de Bloom,Saija Mauno,Saija Mauno,Taru Feldt,Kalevi Korpela +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify boundary management profiles based on cross-role interruption behaviors from work to nonwork and from nonwork to work, and examine differences between these profiles with respect to recovery experiences ( psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control during off-job time) and recovery outcomes (vigor and exhaustion).
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Relationship between employment histories and frailty trajectories in later life: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Wentian Lu,Rebecca Benson,Karen Glaser,Loretta G. Platts,Laurie M. Corna,Diana Worts,Peggy McDonough,Giorgio Di Gessa,Debora Price,Amanda Sacker +9 more
TL;DR: For women, experiencing distinct periods throughout the lifecourse of either work or family care may be advantageous for lessening frailty risk in later life, and for men, leaving paid employment before 65 years seems to be beneficial for decelerating increases in frailty thereafter.
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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.