Work-Family Positive Spillover: Where Have we been and What Lies Ahead?

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice, Volume 1

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 272-295

  Zimmerman, Kristi L ^a   Hammer, Leslie B ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological systems theory useful framework for understanding integration of work and family; Enhancement hypothesis and work family positive spillover; Examining positive side of work coming into play in organizational psychology; Family facilitating work domain outcomes family roles in parenting, enriching personal resources as self esteem and competences; Focus of positive psychology not just fixing what is broken but nurturing what is best; Greenhaus Powell's (2006) theory of work family enrichment; Need for theoretical models studying process of work family positive spillover; Positive psychology movement and Martin Seligman works in area of optimism and happiness; Work family positive spillover where have we been and what lies ahead; Work family research, significant element of field of occupational health psychology

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EID: 80051972388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661550.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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