Work-Family Interaction Strain: Coping Strategies Used by Successful Women in the Public, Corporate and Self-Employed Sectors of the Economy

Brink, B.E.H. ten; Rey, Cheryl de la

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“…Frye and Breaugh (2004) point out that this trend has resulted in a better understanding of the work-family conflict than the family-work conflict. In addition, most studies (Brink & de la Rey, 2001;Grzywacz et al, 2002;Theunissen et al, 2003; and those reported in Unger & Crawford, 1992) have been conducted on professional women or women in high level positions and have tended to neglect women in lower paid positions.…”

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Working mothers: Family-work conflict, job performance and family/work variables

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The present study examined the relationship between family-work conflict, job performance and selected work and family characteristics in a sample of working mothers employed at a large retail organization. The hypothesis of a negative relationship between family-work conflict and job performance was rejected. Married women reported significantly higher family-work conflict than unmarried women, while women in the highest work category gained the highest job performance rating. More than half the sample indicated that paid work was more important than their housework and reported that their working had a positive impact on their families. The findings are discussed in relation to the changing work and family identities of non-career women.

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“…Another South African study by Brink and De la Rey (2001) included 110 employed and married women from various race groups with children and employed mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative data). From the results they concluded that women generally perceived themselves to be primarily responsible to establish a lifestyle that would enable them to combine work and family responsibilities.…”

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Balancing the Scales of Gender and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

Mayer

Barnard

2015

Psychology of Gender Through the Lens of Culture

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“…Voydanoff and Donnelly (1989) conceptualised role stress as a person's appraisal of the level of conflict between roles and of the degree of strain experienced from attempting to meet multiple role demands. Researchers in South Africa (Brink and De la Rey, 2001;Mclellan and Uys, 2009;Van Aarde and Mostert, 2008) confirm that the conflicts women experience between their traditional roles as housewives, mothers and homemakers and their professional roles as managers and leaders can be a major source of role strain and stress in both the workplace and at home. Stress and work-family conflict are intertwined; and this kind of conflict has been documented as both cause and outcome of job stress.…”

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Developing an instrument to assess work-family pressures and resources needed by women managers in South Africa

Vermeulen¹,

Sonubi²

2015

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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In the last decade, there has been a sharp increase in the employment of working mothers in the South African labour market. Work-family scholars argue that organisations must develop supporting policies and benefits to shield working mothers against work-family pressures. This article focuses on the development of the Work-Family Pressure and Support Questionnaire (W-FPSQ) as a measure to assess the pressures that working mothers experience and to identify the resources they need to balance their work and family life. A sequential mixed method design was adopted to gather the data needed to develop the questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis and correlation designs were used to explore the internal structure of the questionnaire, as well as its validity and reliability. A total of 205 mothers occupying management and professional positions were involved in the validation of the questionnaire. A six-factor measurement model was established with good to excellent factor scores; it has very satisfactory Cronbach alpha coefficients. The individual scales were labelled, Work-family pressure, Personal development, Management support, Organisational flexibility, Time for family interaction, and Child care support. The W-FPSQ provides researchers and practitioners with a tool to evaluate working mothers' experiences in balancing work and family responsibilities, and to examine the extent to which organisations are perceived as supportive of work and family. Furthermore, the W-FPSQ can be used to generate information that management needs to develop and implement workand family-supportive policies to help working mothers to balance work and family demands.

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Work-Family Interaction Strain: Coping Strategies Used by Successful Women in the Public, Corporate and Self-Employed Sectors of the Economy

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Working mothers: Family-work conflict, job performance and family/work variables

Working mothers: Family-work conflict, job performance and family/work variables

Balancing the Scales of Gender and Culture in Contemporary South Africa

Developing an instrument to assess work-family pressures and resources needed by women managers in South Africa

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