Work, family and life-course fit: does control over work time matter

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• Personal Author:
  Huang Q ; Kelly E ; Moen P
• Description:
  This study moves from "work-family" to a multi-dimensional "life-course fit" construct (employees' cognitive assessments of resources, resource deficits, and resource demands), using a combined work-family, demands-control and ecology of the life course framing. It examined (1) impacts of job and home ecological systems on fit dimensions, and (2) whether control over work time predicted and mediated life-course fit outcomes. Using cluster analysis of survey data on a sample of 917 white-collar employees from Best Buy headquarters, we identified four job ecologies (corresponding to the job demands-job control model) and five home ecologies (theorizing an analogous home demands-home control model). Job and home ecologies predicted fit dimensions in an additive, not interactive, fashion. Employees' work-time control predicted every life-course fit dimension and partially mediated effects of job ecologies, organizational tenure, and job category. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Family Men Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Work-family Control-methods Control Over Work Time Demandcontrol Employee-health Employees Families Job-analysis Job And Home Ecologies Job And Home Systems Job Strain Life-course Fit Life-sciences Occupations Role Train/Enhancement Sociological-factors Sociology Work-operations Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health Workers Work Time Control

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• ISSN:
  0001-8791
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  414-425
• Volume:
  73
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042146
• Citation:
  J Vocat Behav 2008 Dec; 73(3):414-425
• Contact Point Address:
  Phyllis Moen, Sociology Department, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
• Email:
  phylmoen@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Vocational Behavior
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c96b6de4145f0af3c0bbd7abb4a831a60ed90a16a5e0cab2ee52c011aecb74ed094848e9ad9d4703fedb57fe0bde9e344d65d7f1b200edb53309f6c68097f8a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194464/cdc_194464_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 329.09 KB ]