Social class and the experience of work-family conflict during the transition to adulthood

Ammons, Samantha K.; Kelly, Erin

doi:10.1002/cd.210

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“…In accordance with Ammons and Kelly (2008), we expected that emerging adults following a trajectory of showing low efficacy in dealing with work-partnership conflicts with limited growth over time would exhibit higher and increasing stress levels in the work domain and also greater and more frequent work-to-partnership and partnership-to-work conflicts, mainly due to their lack of progress in competence. Gianakos (1999) found that individuals with higher occupational self-efficacy showed stable and committed patterns in their career histories.…”

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Competent in Work and Love? Emerging Adults’ Trajectories in Dealing With Work–Partnership Conflicts and Links to Health Functioning

Seiffge‐Krenke¹,

Luyckx

2013

Emerging Adulthood

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In a 3-year longitudinal study on 989 emerging adults, we assessed self-efficacy in dealing with work-family conflicts and different indices of work and relationships characteristics (e.g., satisfaction, commitment, and stress). In addition, we assessed different indices of health functioning (e.g., sick days, body complaints, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and well-being). Latent class growth analyses revealed three different trajectories of competence with work-to-partnership conflicts over time that were related to work, romantic relationships, and health. Emerging adults in the high stable group (characterized by high levels of selfefficacy in dealing with conflicts in work and partnerships) remained in considerably better health than those in the other two groups. Emerging adults following the moderate increasing and the low increasing trajectories (e.g., with increasing competencies, starting from moderate and low mean levels in self-efficacy in dealing with work-partnership conflicts), experienced a stable commitment with their partners but more partnership-work conflicts over time. Their job satisfaction also increased over time.Overall health improved in those following the low increasing trajectory but remained considerably lower than in the other two groups. Results are interpreted with respect to the challenges but also the costs of efforts involved in adapting to the difficult transitions in the domains of love and work.

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Competent in Work and Love? Emerging Adults’ Trajectories in Dealing With Work–Partnership Conflicts and Links to Health Functioning

Seiffge‐Krenke¹,

Luyckx

2013

Emerging Adulthood

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“…Kelly and Ammons (2008) find that young people with lower educational attainments experience more family-to-work interference, given their early family formation and poor working conditions (e.g., limited control over work hours). Somewhat ironically, “family friendly” work policies and benefits are more available to higher income young workers who need them less.…”

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The Evolution, Contributions, and Prospects of the Youth Development Study

Mortimer

2012

Soc Psychol Q

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Grounded in social structure and personality, life course, and status attainment perspectives of social psychology, the Youth Development Study has followed a cohort of teenagers from the beginning of high school through their mid-thirties. Evidence for the effective exercise of agency derives from diverse adolescent work patterns leading to outcomes that are consistent with youth’s earlier goals, motivations, and resources. Thus, the socioeconomic career begins well before the completion of formal education. The YDS has revealed multiple pathways of contemporary transition to adulthood, the circumstances surrounding parental residential and financial support to their transitioning children, and the cessation of deviant behavior as adult roles are acquired. Agentic pathways during this period are significant precursors of success during subsequent economic downturn. The new YDS Second Generation Study is well poised to address the impacts of parental trajectories on the adjustment and well-being of children.

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“…There is limited evidence from representative studies of North America, especially in the Canadian population. Ours is among the first that we know of to explore these associations with representative Canadian survey data (for some American exceptions, see Carr, 2002;Maume, 2006;Mennino & Brayfield, 2002;Sayer, 2005). Work-family conflict is considered bidirectional, where work intrudes on family time and expectations (work-to-family conflict) versus the opposite (family-to-work conflict).…”

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Scaling Back and Finding Flexibility: Gender Differences in Parents' Strategies to Manage Work–Family Conflict

Young

Schieman

2017

J of Marriage and Family

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Social class and the experience of work-family conflict during the transition to adulthood

Cited by 20 publications

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Competent in Work and Love? Emerging Adults’ Trajectories in Dealing With Work–Partnership Conflicts and Links to Health Functioning

Competent in Work and Love? Emerging Adults’ Trajectories in Dealing With Work–Partnership Conflicts and Links to Health Functioning

The Evolution, Contributions, and Prospects of the Youth Development Study

Scaling Back and Finding Flexibility: Gender Differences in Parents' Strategies to Manage Work–Family Conflict

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