The Demands of Creative Work: Implications for Stress in the Work-Family Interface

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• Personal Author:
  Schieman S ; Young M
• Description:
  Using data from a 2006-07 US survey of workers, we examine the association between creative work and work-to-family conflict, focusing special attention on the demands associated with creative work and their implications for work-family multitasking. Findings indicate that creative work is associated negatively with work-to-family conflict and stressful work-related thoughts-but these associations are suppressed by the following patterns: (1) creative work is associated with greater work demands; (2) those conditions are associated with higher levels of work-family multitasking; and (3) demands and multitasking increase work-to-family conflict and stressful boundary-spanning thoughts. Taken together, these patterns reveal suppression effects: Individuals with creative work would report lower work-to-family conflict and fewer stressful thoughts were it not for their exposure to work and boundary-spanning demands and their more frequent work-family multitasking. Collectively, our findings reveal previously undocumented patterns in the ways that the demands associated with creative work influence stress in the work-family interface. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Schedule Control Families Job Demands Job Stress Mental Health Psychological Responses Role Blurring Sociology Work-family Conflict Work-life Balance
• ISSN:
  0049-089X
• 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:
  246-259
• Volume:
  39
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057407
• Citation:
  Soc Sci Res 2010 Mar; 39(2):246-259
• Contact Point Address:
  Scott Schieman, Department of Sociology, 725 Spadina Ave., University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2J4
• Email:
  scott.schieman@utoronto.ca
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  University of Toronto
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040901
• Source Full Name:
  Social Science Research
• End Date:
  20090831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80514dd384df28d02b3e5e55eb59311f4215793839ffcc0b75297afe0bf9ff69327647be2ec628888b10f3daee48a4d110ec5393c01c64142def6e227fbfc48f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214764/cdc_214764_DS1.pdf
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