A cross-national view of personal responsibility for work-life balance.

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• Personal Author:
  Allen TD ; Biga A ; Cho E ; Shockley KM
• Description:
  We propose work-family researchers investigate individual differences in personal responsibility for work-life balance (PRWLB), defined as a self-directed attitude toward work-life balance that recognizes personal choice and priorities. We examine variation in PRWLB across country, gender, and cultural values. Data were collected from 3446 employees working for a multinational firm in eight countries (i.e., Egypt, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, and Turkey). Results indicated significant variation in PRWLB across countries with participants from Hungary reporting the lowest mean scores and participants from Russia reporting the highest mean scores. Variation as a function of cultural values and interactions between cultural values and gender were also detected. Our findings demonstrate that the perspective that one takes in terms of personal responsibility meaningfully varies across cultural contexts. We describe implications for the development of culture-sensitive theories of work-family experiences. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Men Occupational Health Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Work-life balance; Families; Workers; Humans; Men; Women; Sociological factors; Employees
• ISBN:
  9781108415972
• Publisher:
  Cambridge University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065324
• Citation:
  The Cambridge handbook of the global work-family interface. Shockley KM, Shen W, Johnson RC eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018 Apr; :733-746
• Editor(s):
  Shockley KM; Shen W; Johnson RC
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  The Cambridge handbook of the global work-family interface
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a567245c4516986a0929e3cfbfce4f3d1da9599186dc39c774db4407dfb10708ebe73c236f2af175814e28ea9a7ef8d6759f2d623e7d197efddc645b87f1e93c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248588/cdc_248588_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 224.87 KB ]