Playing Roles in Work and Family: Effects of Work/Family Conflicts on Job and Life Satisfaction Among Junior High School Teachers

Li, Xing; Lin, Xinyue; Zhang, Fan; Tian, Yuan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.772025

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“…As a result, in the face of the heavy teaching tasks under the ‘double reduction’ policy and the multiple role conflicts, teachers’ occupational anxiety arose spontaneously, which became the dominant force hidden behind the teachers’ role and constituted the psychological motivation for teachers to complain, resist and escape. At the same time, through interviews, this study verified the view that ‘teachers had role conflicts between work and family’ ( Cinamon and Rich, 2005 ; Li et al, 2021 ) from an empirical perspective. On the other hand, teachers’ multiple roles in the school were all symbols of non-educational teaching tasks that teachers undertake.…”

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The occupational anxiety of teachers caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy—a study based on the grounded theory

2023

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Teachers’ occupational anxiety is a kind of negative emotional state of teachers, which is prevalent in Chinese teachers. Unfortunately, in the existing research, teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy has not been paid attention to. Based on the grounded theory, this study conducted in-depth interviews with 45 in-service primary and junior high school teachers, and used NVivo 12 to process recording materials. Through a series of steps such as open coding, axial coding and selective coding, we found that the core feature of teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy was that the implementation of the ‘double reduction’ policy was incomplete matching the actual educational ecology. Then we constructed a theoretical model of the formation mechanism of teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy. The study showed that due to the influence of teachers’ own personality characteristics and incomplete match between external factors, although teachers insisted on self-adjustment, it was difficult to fundamentally solve the teachers’ occupational anxiety caused by the ‘double reduction’ policy.

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The occupational anxiety of teachers caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy—a study based on the grounded theory

2023

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“…Besides teaching, many also play a family role ( 52 ). The conflict between work and family becomes a problem that primary and secondary school teachers often face ( 53 ). Therefore, it is necessary to study work-family conflict and its influence on consequence variables.…”

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“…It is not only a heavy workload but also very trivial ( 52 ). Teachers in primary and secondary schools play multiple roles, switching back and forth between work and family, and any disharmony between roles can have a negative impact on teachers' behavior and psychology, inevitably leading to work-family conflict ( 53 ). According to the conservation of resource theory, personal resources are limited, if work for a long time consumes resources that are allocated for the family, it will makes teachers feel under pressure and causes dissatisfaction with their work at school ( 54 , 55 ).…”

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“…Psychological contract is the subjective cognition and evaluation of mutual responsibilities and obligations between themselves and their schools ( 18 ). Work-family conflict is an important source of stress in teachers' work and life ( 12 , 52 ), when the work-family conflict gradually increases, the role pressure of teachers will also increase ( 53 ). They will begin to perceive that school work has an impact on their individual families.…”

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Influence of Work-Family Conflict on Turnover Intention of Primary and Secondary School Teachers: Serial Mediating Role of Psychological Contract and Job Satisfaction

Chen

Gao

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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ObjectiveBased on conservation of resource theory and social exchange theory, to explore how work-family conflict can directly and indirectly influence turnover intention, with psychological contract and job satisfaction as a mediator.MethodsA total of 505 valid data were collected on primary and secondary school teachers by using work-family conflict questionnaire, turnover intention questionnaire, psychological contract questionnaire and job satisfaction questionnaire from 3 provinces in China. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the discriminant validity and common method bias between the four variables through AOMS, the PROCESS macro for SPSS (Model 4 and Model 6) were applied to examine the mediating effect of psychological contract and job satisfaction.ResultsWork-family conflict showed a direct and positive influence on turnover intention; psychological contract was shown to play a mediating role between work-family conflict and turnover intention; job satisfaction was shown to play a mediating role between work-family conflict and turnover intention; and psychological contract and job satisfaction was shown to play a serial mediating role between work-family conflict and turnover intention.ConclusionWork-family conflict of primary and secondary school teachers will directly lead to turnover intention. Psychological contract and job satisfaction can reduce the positive influence of work-family conflict on turnover intention. School administrators should help teachers reduce work-family conflict and take effective measures to improve psychological contract and job satisfaction, so as to reduce turnover intention.

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“…In addition, emotional dissonance can lead to low levels of helping other behaviors in employes because these employes rarely perform helping other behaviors that drain personal resources. Previous research has also examined work-family conflict and its impact on employe negative behavior ( Li et al, 2021 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ) because of the highly competitive service industry environment ( Obrenovic et al, 2020 ). However, the moderating role of work-family conflict has not been examined in the service industry environment because work-family conflict is almost regarded as a driving factor of negative employe behavior.…”

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To help others or not: A moderated mediation model of emotional dissonance

Huang

et al. 2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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This article proposes a moderated mediation model of emotional dissonance. In the model, emotional leadership negatively affects emotional dissonance, which, in turn, negatively affects helping behavior. Furthermore, the negative effect of emotional dissonance is assumed to be moderated by work-family conflict. Direct effects from both emotional leadership and work-family conflict to helping other behavior are also considered. Previous studies have neglected the mechanism of emotional dissonance, but this paper fills the gap with a moderated mediation model of emotional dissonance. This article not only provides an incremental contribution to the emotional dissonance literature but also suggests means by which companies might enhance employe helping behaviors in order to achieve greater organizational efficiency.

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Playing Roles in Work and Family: Effects of Work/Family Conflicts on Job and Life Satisfaction Among Junior High School Teachers

Cited by 25 publications

References 107 publications

The occupational anxiety of teachers caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy—a study based on the grounded theory

The occupational anxiety of teachers caused by China’s ‘double reduction’ policy—a study based on the grounded theory

Influence of Work-Family Conflict on Turnover Intention of Primary and Secondary School Teachers: Serial Mediating Role of Psychological Contract and Job Satisfaction

To help others or not: A moderated mediation model of emotional dissonance

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