Wiese
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | External and internal conflict experiences of working mothers | ||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Externales und internales Konflikterleben erwerbstätiger Mütter | ||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | This project investigates two forms of conflicts that working mothers might experience, i.e., external and internal conflicts. External conflicts denote problems in fulfilling everyday tasks in the family and work domains due to limited resources (e.g., time, energy). Internal conflicts refer to individual feelings of ambivalence regarding one´s simultaneous engagement in the work and family domains. N = 107 employed mothers particpated in our project They filled out a self-report questionnaire and worked on a computerized implicit association task. In addition, a subsample of n = 69 women participated in a subsequent two-week diary study. Within this project, we developed a self-report instrument, which turned out to reliably measure explicit and implicit conflicts. In addition, we investigated work-related and health-related consequences of these different forms of conflicts. As hypothesized objective stressors (weekly working hours) and subjective work strain were associated with increased work-family conflicts. However, objective and subjective stressors had no differential impact on internal and external conflicts. Family-related stressors and strain were less clearly related to work-family conflicts. Dicrepancies between explicit and implicit attitudes towards mothers' work involvment showed clear relations to increased levels of psychosomatic symptoms. Therefore, these discrepancies can be interpretd as a specific form of intrapsychic conflict. The conflict-driven well-being impairments were clearly found in the diary assessment but not in the questionnaire assessment. Most interestingly, diary assessments not only evinced synchronous but als time-lagged relationships, i.e., work-family conflicts on one day were predictive for reduced well-being on the following day. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Wiese, B. S., Freund, A. M. & Seiger, C. P. (submitted). Functional facets of work-family enhancement. Manuscript submitted for publication. | ||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | work, family, external conflicts, internal conflicts | ||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Foundation Suzanne and Hans Biäsch Foundation (Stiftung Suzanne und Hans Biäsch) |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Aug 2006 to Dec 2007 |