How being mindful impacts individuals' work-family balance, conflict, and enrichment: a review of existing evidence, mechanisms and future directions.

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• Personal Author:
  Allen TD ; Paddock EL
• Description:
  Growing exponentially over the past several decades, the topic of work and family has fueled a large body of scholarship (see Allen 2012 for a review). Interest in work and family is expansive. The struggle to balance work and family is one that resonates with many adults. It is a topic of concern to organizations (Society for Human Resource Management Workplace Forecast 2008) and to societies across the globe (Poelmans, Greenhaus, and Las Heras Maestro 2013). Indeed, work-family issues have captured the attention of the public at large, frequently appearing as a focal topic in the popular press with titles such as "Why Women Still Can's Have It All" (Slaughter 2012) and "Men Want Work-Family Balance, and Policy Should Help Them Achieve It" (Covert 2013). To date, the majority of work-family scholarship has focused on situational factors that help or inhibit individuals' abilities to manage multiple role responsibilities. This focus has resulted in a considerable body of work that has demonstrated links between stressors and demands emanating from the work and the family domains with constructs such as work-family conflict (Michel, Kotrba, Mitchelson, Clark, and Baltes 2011). Much of the attention aimed at reducing work-family conflict has centered on organizational practices such as flexible work arrangements and dependent care supports, despite findings that such practices have limited effectiveness in terms of alleviating work-family conflict (Allen et al. 2013; Butts, Casper, and Yang 2013). Work-family intervention research has focused on training supervisors to be more family-supportive (e.g., Hammer et al. 2011) or on flexible work practices (e.g., Perlow and Kelly 2014). Such approaches are based on the notion that experiences such as work-family conflict are primarily provoked by the situation. There is also a growing body of research that demonstrates that personality variables are associated with work-family experiences, which suggests that individual differences beyond demographic variables also contribute to work-family experiences (Allen et al. 2012). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Work-family balance; Sociological factors; Socioeconomics; Occupational psychology; Wellbeing
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107587793.011
• ISBN:
  9781107064805
• Publisher:
  Cambridge University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  213-238
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065399
• Citation:
  Mindfulness in organizations: foundations, research, and applications. Reb J, Atkins PWB eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015 Jun; :213-238
• Editor(s):
  Reb J; Atkins PWB
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Mindfulness in organizations: foundations, research, and applications
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248988/cdc_248988_DS1.pdf
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