Wellbeing and flow in sample of male and female office workers

Bryce, Jo; Haworth, John

doi:10.1080/0261436021000030687

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“…Here again, results confirm the primal role of corporeality (Cromby, 2007;Santiago-Delefosse, 2014) across women's accounts, since it enables them to let go through relaxation, physical exercise, breathing sensations, etc. This finding has been previously discussed in the literature, where authors have claimed the positive impact of physical activities to release job stress (Bryce & Haworth, 2002;Fisher et al, 2009;Hecht & Boies, 2009). My approach is nevertheless complementary to existing research.…”

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The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being: Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday

Carral

2015

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Work-life issues have become a major concern across Western societies with the objective to promote women's careers and well-being. However, despite growing attempts to increase the number of women in senior management positions in European countries, such as Switzerland, they remain highly underrepresented. Inspired from the cultural approach in psychology, this article focuses on these women's concrete everyday life to understand how they articulate different life domains and how this influences their subjective well-being. A narrative approach based on reflexivity is adopted to analyze women's activity. Results show meaning intertwinements between life priorities that are often conflicting. Two psychological functions are identified: the feeling of control and the letting go of control. Each of these contributes to women's subjective well-being through the use of diversified supports, but their structuring roles appear only in relation to one another. Results are discussed in the light of existing literature and of their implications.

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The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being: Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday

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2015

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“…For this reason they consider that promoting life satisfaction through the support of structure, exploration and seriousness in leisure could be a more practical way to foster complexity and wellbeing both at the individual and at the societal level. Bryce and Haworth (2002) in a study of wellbeing and flow in a sample of male and female office workers in the UK, found that challenging, enjoyable experiences (flow) were associated with standard measures of wellbeing and that, similar to other studies, flow came more from work than from leisure. Studies using the experience sampling method by Clarke and Haworth (1994) and Haworth and Evans (1995) have also shown that enjoyable flow experiences are associated with standard measures of wellbeing.…”

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Haworth

2003

Leisure Studies

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“…The move away from a focus on the negative in terms of illness towards a focus on the factors that underpin health in the health psychology literature generally is reflected in research on leisure and well-being (Bryce & Haworth, 2002). An ever growing number of psychologists are turning towards positive psychology and recognising that the absence of negative events is neither a sufficient or even necessary condition for health and well-being.…”

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Leisure, coping and health: the role of social, family, school and peer relationship factors

Cassidy¹

2005

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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The relationship between social, family, peer and school factors and leisure engagement within a transactional model of stress and health was investigated in 655 young adults. Results show that the family environment, encouragement from parents and teachers, relationships with peers and socioeconomic factors in childhood predict adult attitudes to and engagement in leisure. In turn, leisure attitude and engagement are related to psychological distress, optimism, perceived control and social support. It is argued that the development of patterns of leisure attitudes and engagement in childhood need to be understood in predicting and changing adult leisure behaviours relevant to health and illness.

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Wellbeing and flow in sample of male and female office workers

Cited by 106 publications

References 27 publications

The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being: Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday

The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being: Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday

Editorial: leisure and wellbeing

Leisure, coping and health: the role of social, family, school and peer relationship factors

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