Associations between Marital Distress and Work Loss in a National Sample

Forthofer, Melinda; Markman, Howard J.; Cox, Martha J.; Stanley, Scott M.; Kessler, Ronald C.

doi:10.2307/353720

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“…Negative spillover and conflict (a related construct) have been associated with a host of maladaptive outcomes including depression (Gerstel & Gallagher, 1993), lower physical health, hypertension, alcohol use (Frone, Russell, & Cooper, 1997;Grzywacz & Marks, 2000), and work absenteeism (Forthofer, Markman, Cox, Stanley, & Kessler, 1996). There is also evidence of positive spillover occurring between work and family, although it has received less research attention (Barnett & Marshall, 1992a, 1992b.…”

Section: Literature On Spillover and Related Constructsmentioning

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Home-to-Job Spillover for Generation X, Boomers, and Matures: A Comparison

Dilworth

Kingsbury

2005

J Fam Econ Iss

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Home-to-job spillover, a source of stress for employed men and women, can be exacerbated by factors that deplete personal time and energy. Household responsibilities and caring for children or the elderly are stressors that may differentially impact employed adults based on lifecycle stage. The present study identified time, satisfaction, and demographic variables significantly associated with negative home-tojob spillover for three generational groups: generation Xer's, boomers, and matures. Matures spent significantly more time caring for the elderly whereas boomers and generation Xer's spent more time caring for children. Significantly more boomers reported home-to-job spillover, and there were more predictors of spillover for this group than for members of the younger or older generations.

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Section: Literature On Spillover and Related Constructsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Home-to-Job Spillover for Generation X, Boomers, and Matures: A Comparison

Dilworth

Kingsbury

2005

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…Our results showed that married respondents reported higher level of happiness than did single respondents. The reason for this is that married people not only have a lower probability of suffering from mental and physical illness (DeLongis et al, 1988), but also their mortality (Lynch, 1979) and unemployment levels (Forthhofer et al, 1996) are relatively low. On the other hand, marriage can cause happiness to decrease (Tsang et al, 2003), because after the birth of a child, this places demands on the parents' energy and time (Lawson, 1998).…”

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Subjective Well-being and Its Determinants in China: An Empirical Study Based on Survey Data

Liang¹,

Shen

2016

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Using household survey data collected in 2013, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of individual subjective well-being in China, where there has been rapid economic development over the past three decades. The main results are as follows. First, factors such as good health, marital status, life satisfaction, body mass index, physical exercise, and expectations of inflation are all significantly correlated with the reported level of happiness. Second, income has no significant effect on the level of happiness, and happiness has an inverted U-shaped relationship to wealth. Third, increased education decreases the level of happiness. To some extent, these findings can explain why subjective well-being has declined in China, despite its spectacular economic growth.

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“…Happily married individuals are less likely to have physical health problems or psychological difficulties than unmarried persons (DeLongis, Folkman, & Lazarus, 1988), and mortality rates are consistently higher for widowed, single, and divorced individuals than they are for married people (Lynch, 1979). People who are happily married experience less unemployment than those with troubled marriages (Forthofer, Markman, Cox, Stanley, & Kessler, 1996).…”

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Beyond Money

Diener

Seligman

2004

Psychol Sci Public Interest

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SUMMARY-Policy decisions at the organizational, corporate, and governmental levels should be more heavily influenced by issues related to well-being--people's evaluations and feelings about their lives. Domestic policy currently focuses heavily on economic outcomes, although economic indicators omit, and even mislead about, much of what society values. We show that economic indicators have many shortcomings, and that measures of well-being point to important conclusions that are not apparent from economic indicators alone. For example, although economic output has risen steeply over the past decades, there has been no rise in life satisfaction during this period, and there has been a substantial increase in depression and distrust. We argue that economic indicators were extremely important in the early stages of economic development, when the fulfillment of basic needs was the main issue. As societies grow wealthy, however, differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequently due to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work.Important noneconomic predictors of the average levels of well-being of societies include social capital, democratic governance, and human rights. In the workplace, noneconomic factors influence work satisfaction and profitability. It is therefore important that organizations, as well as nations, monitor the well-being of workers, and take steps to improve it.Assessing the well-being of individuals with mental disorders casts light on policy problems that do not emerge from economic indicators. Mental disorders cause widespread suffering, and their impact is growing, especially in relation to the influence of medical disorders, which is declining. Although many studies now show that the suffering due to mental disorders can be alleviated by treatment, a large proportion of persons with mental disorders go untreated. Thus, a policy imperative is to offer treatment to more people with mental disorders, and more assistance to their caregivers.Supportive, positive social relationships are necessary for well-being. There are data suggesting that well-being leads to good social relationships and does not merely follow from them. In addition, experimental evidence indicates that people suffer when they are ostracized from groups or have poor relationships in groups. The fact that strong social relationships are critical to well-being has many policy implications. For instance, corporations should carefully consider relocating employees because doing so can sever friendships and therefore be detrimental to well-being.Desirable outcomes, even economic ones, are often caused by well-being rather than the other way around. People high in wellbeing later earn higher incomes and perform better at work than people who report low well-being. Happy workers are better organizational citizens, meaning that they help other people at work in various ways. Furthermore, people high in well-being seem to have better social relationships than people low in wellbeing. ...

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Associations between Marital Distress and Work Loss in a National Sample

Cited by 109 publications

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Home-to-Job Spillover for Generation X, Boomers, and Matures: A Comparison

Home-to-Job Spillover for Generation X, Boomers, and Matures: A Comparison

Subjective Well-being and Its Determinants in China: An Empirical Study Based on Survey Data

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