Work-family conflict in Japan: How job and home demands affect psychological distress

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 766-774

  Shimazu, Akihito ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   Demerouti, Evangelia ^c   Peeters, Maria C W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Home demands; Job demands; Psychological distress; Spillover; Structural equation modeling; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFLICT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; JAPAN; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK;

EID: 78650595693     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1131     Document Type: Article

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