When hard times take a toll: the distressing consequences of economic hardship and life events within the family-work interface

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• Personal Author:
  Schieman S ; Young M
• Description:
  Using two waves of data from a national survey of working Americans (N = 1,122), we examine the associations among economic hardship, negative life events, and psychological distress in the context of the family-work interface. Our findings demonstrate that family-to-work conflict mediates the effects of economic hardship and negative events to significant others on distress (net of baseline distress and hardship). Moreover, economic hardship and negative events to significant others moderate the association between family-to-work conflict and distress. While negative events to others exacerbate the positive effect of family-to-work conflict on distress, we find the opposite for economic hardship: The positive association between hardship and distress is weaker at higher levels of family-to-work conflict. These patterns hold across an array of family, work, and sociodemographic conditions. We discuss how these findings refine and extend ideas of the stress process model, including complex predictions related to processes of stress-buffering, resource substitution, and role multiplication. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Behavior Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Women
• Keywords:
  Age-groups Author Keywords: Economic Hardship Family-work Conflict Humans Life Events Psychological-stress Psychological Distress Psychology Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Stress Stress Process Model Workers

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• ISSN:
  0022-1465
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  84-98
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041155
• Citation:
  J Health Soc Behav 2012 Mar; 53(1):84-98
• Contact Point Address:
  Marisa Young, Department of Sociology, 725 Spadina Avenue, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 Canada
• Email:
  marisa.young@utoronto.ca
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  University of Toronto
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Health and Social Behavior
• End Date:
  20090831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3de881512fb44bb1b35632e38b256cedeeb9b4a5abd41d756acd39e5eb470ba1c2720df8a839e27d758c828dd26f0231cc959e1f7025d57a1de764aa2018a035
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193779/cdc_193779_DS1.pdf
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