Finding Time over Time: Longitudinal Links Between Employed Mothers’ Work-Family Conflict and Time Profiles

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• Personal Author:
  Almeida DM ; Crouter AC ; Hammer LB ; Lee, Stephen A. ; McHale SM
• Description:
  Drawing upon the Work-Home Resources model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012), this study examined the links between work-family conflict and employed mothers' profiles of time resources for work and parenting roles. Using a person-centered latent profile approach, we identified 3 profiles of time use and perceived time adequacy in a sample of mothers employed in the extended-care industry (N = 440): a Work-Oriented profile, characterized by spending relatively more time at work, perceiving lower time adequacy for work, spending less time with children, and perceiving lower time adequacy for children; a Parenting-Oriented profile, characterized by the opposite pattern; and a Role-Balanced profile, characterized by average levels across the 4 dimensions. Mothers in the Work-Oriented profile reported greater work-to-family conflict and family to-work conflict than those in the Role-Balanced and Parenting-Oriented profiles. Greater work-to-family conflict was linked to membership in the Work-Oriented profile, net of personal, family, and work characteristics. Longitudinal latent profile transition analysis showed that increases in work-to-family conflict across 12 months were linked to greater odds of moving toward the Work-Oriented profile (relative to staying in the same profile), whereas decreases in work-to-family conflict were linked to greater odds of moving toward the Parenting-Oriented profile. Results illuminate the heterogeneity in how employed mothers perceive and allocate time in work and parenting roles and suggest that decreasing work-to-family conflict may preserve time resources for parenting. Intervention efforts should address ways of increasing employees' family time resources and decreasing work-family conflict. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Health Personnel Home Care Services Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Women
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Latent Profile Analysis Children Families Health Care Health Care Workers Home Health Care Job Analysis Job Stress Long Work Hours Maternal Employment Psychological Responses Quality Of Life Quality Of Work Life QWL Time Adequacy Time Use Work-family Conflict Work-life Balance Work Intervals Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  0893-3200
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20050491
• Citation:
  J Family Psychol 2017 Aug; 31(5):604-615
• Contact Point Address:
  Soomi Lee, Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, 221 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA 16802
• Email:
  smlee@psu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Family Psychology
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6566f7e94f875027a55c859a15235fadd859dbd4922d1d798fcb857b350a77fcc795204da2623d7ec051458fee6b23cd490301883ab7fbb9105e8887b568b7c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210810/cdc_210810_DS1.pdf
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