Working mothers’ emotional exhaustion from work and care: The role of core self-evaluations, mental health, and control

Greaves, Claire E.; Parker, Stacey L.; Zacher, Hannes; Jimmieson, Nerina L.

doi:10.1080/02678373.2017.1303760

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“…The necessity to attend divorce proceedings, the roll-over emotional effects of the divorce/separation and the ensuing lack of social support may be associated with higher absenteeism [91]. On the other hand, married employees with young children may experience heavier caretaking burdens and emotional exhaustion from juggling work-life responsibilities, compared to single employees, which in turn may also result in absenteeism [92–94].…”

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Anteceding factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism in urban area in Malaysia

Wee

Yeap²,

Chan

et al. 2019

BMC Public Health

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Background Organization productivity is strongly linked to employees’ socioeconomic characteristics and health which is marked by absenteeism and presenteeism. This study aims to identify anteceding factors predicting employees’ absenteeism and presenteeism by income, physical and mental health. Methods An online health survey was conducted between May to July 2017 among employees from 47 private companies located in urban Malaysia. A total of 5235 respondents completed the 20-min online employee health survey on a voluntary basis. Chi-Square or Fisher’s exact tests were used to determine association between income with demographic and categorical factors of absenteeism and presenteeism. Multivariate linear regression was used to identify factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism. Results More than one third of respondents’ monthly income were less than RM4,000 (35.4%), 29.6% between RM4,000-RM7,999 and 35.0% earned RM8,000 and above. The mean age was 33.8 years (sd ± 8.8) and 49.1% were married. A majority were degree holders (74.4%) and 43.6% were very concerned about their financial status. Mean years of working was 6.2 years (sd ± 6.9) with 68.9% satisfied with their job. More than half reported good general physical health (54.5%) ( p = 0.065) and mental health (53.5%) ( p = 0.019). The mean hours of sleep were 6.4 h (sd ± 1.1) with 63.2% reporting being unwell due to stress for the past 12 months. Mean work time missed due to ill-health (absenteeism) was 3.1% (sd ± 9.1), 2.8% (sd ± 9.1) and 1.8% (sd ± 6.5) among employees whose monthly income was less than RM4,000, RM4,000-RM7,999 and over RM8,000 respectively ( p = 0.0066). Mean impairment while working due to ill-health (presenteeism) was 28.2% (sd ± 25.3), 24.9% (sd ± 25.5) and 20.3% (sd ± 22.9) among employees whose monthly income was less than RM4,000, RM4,000-RM7,999 and over RM8,000 respectively ( p < 0.0001). Factors that predict both absenteeism and presenteeism were income, general physical health, sleep length and being unwell due to stress. Conclusions A combination of socioeconomic, physical and mental health factors predicted absenteeism and presenteeism with different strengths. Having insufficient income may lead to second jobs or working more hours which may affect their sleep, subjecting them to stressful condition and poor physical health. These findings demand holistic interventions from organizations and the government.

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Anteceding factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism in urban area in Malaysia

Wee

Yeap²,

Chan

et al. 2019

BMC Public Health

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“…This relationship may indicate that mothers who are high in essentialism may not have enough self-care and become anger and blame their children. Moreover, mothers may develop stress and emotional exhaustion that warrants counseling (Greaves, Parker, Zacher, & Jimmieson, 2017). Bean, Softas-Nall, Eberle, and Paul (2015) recommended that counselors help mothers to identify barriers to self-care and help them develop strategies to overcome the barriers.…”

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Examining Parent Anger and Emotion Regulation in the Context of Intensive Parenting

Prikhidko

Swank

2019

The Family Journal

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intensive parenting attitudes (IPAs), emotion regulation (ER), and parent anger among mothers of young children ( N = 227). The researchers found that IPAs correlated with ER and parent anger. Moreover, essentialist and challenging parenting attitudes predicted anger experience, and cognitive reappraisal moderated the relationship between essentialism and anger experience. The authors discuss the limitations of the study and implications for research and practice.

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“…There is also a strong relationship between burnout and depression (Truzzi et al, 2008, 2012, p. 012; Yılmaz et al, 2009; Lee and Singh, 2010; Katsifaraki and Wood, 2014; Bachner, 2016). Caregiver burnout could also have an impact on other spheres, for example by putting the individual at risk of professional burnout (as shown for parental burnout in Greaves et al, 2017). Informal caregiver burnout could also be a key mediator between subjective burden and decreased social activity (Adelman et al, 2014): caregivers experiencing burnout are less likely to seek social contact.…”

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Informal Caregiver Burnout? Development of a Theoretical Framework to Understand the Impact of Caregiving

2019

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Informal caregiving is a rewarding but demanding role. The present theoretical framework proposes to adapt the tridimensional concept of burnout to informal caregiving as a way to address the potential consequences of caregiving. This adaptation reflects caregivers’ reported difficulties, as well as empirical findings on emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment as caregiving outcomes. But to understand burnout in informal caregiving contexts, it is also necessary to find ways to model it. The Informal Caregiving Integrative Model (ICIM) is thus proposed. This model is based on the integration of elements from literature on both informal caregiving stress and professional burnout. The goal of the ICIM is to emphasize the importance of every category of determinants of informal caregiver burnout (i.e., relating to the caregiver, the caregiving setting, and the sociocultural context), with a key mediating role for the caregivers’ appraisal of their situation and their relationship with the care-recipient. This article is a first integrative step in the consideration of a form of burnout specific to informal caregivers and supports the design of empirical and interventional studies based on the theoretical foundation that the ICIM proposes.

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Working mothers’ emotional exhaustion from work and care: The role of core self-evaluations, mental health, and control

Cited by 26 publications

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Anteceding factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism in urban area in Malaysia

Anteceding factors predicting absenteeism and presenteeism in urban area in Malaysia

Examining Parent Anger and Emotion Regulation in the Context of Intensive Parenting

Informal Caregiver Burnout? Development of a Theoretical Framework to Understand the Impact of Caregiving

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