How much do you value your family and does it matter? the joint effects of family identity salience, family-interference-with-work, and gender

Human Relations

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-210

  Bagger, Jessica ^a   Li, Andrew ^b   Gutek, Barbara A ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Family interference with work; Gender; Identity salience; Job distress; Job satisfaction; Management studies; Work and family

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949178226     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707087784     Document Type: Article

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