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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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Not Able to Lead a Healthy Life When You Need It the Most: Dual Role of Lifestyle Behaviors in the Association of Blurred Work-Life Boundaries With Well-Being
Helen Pluut,Jaap Wonders +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of blurred work-life boundaries on lifestyle and subjective well-being and found that those who would benefit the most from a healthy lifestyle are less able to sustain health-promoting behaviors.
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A multidimensional mediating model of perceived resource gain, work–family conflict sources, and burnout.
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Shared Traumatic Reality and Boundary Theory: How Mental Health Professionals Cope With the Home/Work Conflict During Continuous Security Threats
TL;DR: This article analyzed three focus groups consisting of 30 mental health professionals who worked with traumatized populations in a missile-stricken area in southern Israel and found that these professionals presented a continuum of segmentation and integration of the domains as suggested by boundary theory, when both living and working in a highly stressed environment.
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Blue-Collar Employees' Work/Life Metaphors: Tough Similarities, Imbalance, Separation, and Opposition
TL;DR: This paper examined the metaphors used by those employed in a blue-collar profession (i.e. custodians) and revealed the following metaphors: tough similarities, separation, imbalance, and opposites.
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Faculty Writing Groups: A Support for Women Balancing Family and Career on the Academic Tightrope.
Sharon Penney,Gabrielle Young,Cecile Badenhorst,Karen Goodnough,Jacqueline Hesson,Rhonda Joy,Heather McLeod,Sarah Pickett,Mary Stordy,Dorothy Vaandering,Sharon Pelech +10 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the experiences of women who juggle the demands of family or parenthood while engaging in academic careers at a faculty of education and found that gender specific experiences surrounding parenting, second-career academics, pressure surrounding academic work, human costs, and commitment to work and family.
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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.