Relationships of work-family coping strategies with work-family conflict and enrichment: The roles of gender and parenting status

Family Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-125

  Mauno, Saija ^a   Kinnunen, Ulla ^b   Rantanen, Johanna ^a   Feldt, Taru ^a   Rantanen, Marika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

gender; parenting status; work family conflict; work family coping strategies; work family enrichment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866436046     PISSN: 19424620     EISSN: 19424639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19424620.2012.707618     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Aiken, L.S. and West, S.G. 1991. Multiple regressions. Testing and interpreting interactions, Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
2. Andreassi, J.K. 2011. What the person brings to the table: Personality, coping, and work-family conflict. Journal of Family Issues, 32: 1474-1499.
3. Baltes, B.B. and Dickson, M.W. 2001. Using life-span models in industrial/organizational psychology: The theory of selective optimization with compensation. Applied Developmental Psychology, 5: 51-62.
4. Baltes, B.B. and Heydens-Gahir, H.A. 2003. Reduction of work-family conflict through the use of selection, optimization, and compensation behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 6: 1005-1018.
5. Baltes, P.B. 1997. On the incomplete architecture of human ontogeny: Selection, optimization, and compensation as foundation of developmental theory. American Psychologist, 52: 366-380.
6. Barnett, R. and Hyde, J. 2001. Women, men, work, and family. American Psychologist, 56: 781-796.
7. Baruch, Y. and Holtom, B.C. 2008. Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research. Human Relations, 61: 1139-1160.
8. Bianchi, S.M., Milkie, M.A., Sayer, L.C. and Robinson, J.P. 2000. Is anyone doing the housework? Trends in gender division of household labor. Social Forces, 79: 191-228.
9. Billings, A.G. and Moos, R.H. 1981. The role of coping responses and social resources in attenuating the stress of life events. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 4: 157-189.
10. Billings, A.G. and Moos, R.H. 1984. Coping, stress, and social resources among adults with unipolar depression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46: 877-891.
11. Blair-Loy, M. and Wharton, A. 2002. Employees' use of work-family policies and the workplace social context. Social Forces, 80: 813-845.
12. Bygren, M. and Duvander, A.-Z. 2006. Parents' workplace situation and fathers' parental leave use. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68: 363-372.
13. Byron, K. 2005. A meta-analytic review of work-family conflict and its antecedents. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 67: 169-198.
14. Carlson, D.S., Kacmar, K.M., Wayne, J.H. and Grzywascz, J.G. 2006. Measuring the positive side of the work-family interface. Developing and validation of a work-family enrichment scale. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68: 131-164.
15. Carlson, D.S., Kacmar, K.M. and Williams, L.J. 2000. Construction and initial validation of a multidimensional measure of work-family conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56: 249-276.
16. Carver, C.S., Scheier, M.F. and Weintraub, J.K. 1989. Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56: 267-283.
17. Crompton, R. and Lyonette, C. 2006. Work-life 'balance' in Europe. Acta Sociologica, 49: 379-393.
18. Dewe, P.J., O'Driscoll, M. and Cooper, C.L. 2010. Coping with job stress. A review and critique, Singapore: Wiley-Blackwell.
19. Eby, L.T., Casper, W.J., Lockwood, A., Bordeaux, C. and Brinley, A. 2005. Work and family research in IO/OB: Content analysis ad review of the literature (1980-2002). Journal of Vocational Behavior, 66: 124-197.
20. Edlund, J. 2007. The work-family time squeeze: Conflicting demands of paid and unpaid work among working couples in 29 countries. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 48: 451-480.
21. Edwards, J.R. and Baglioni, A.J. Jr. 1993. The measurement of coping with stress: Construct validity of the Ways of Coping Checklist and the Cybernetic Coping Scale. Work & Stress, 7: 17-31.
22. Feldt, T., Mauno, S. and Rantanen, J. June 14-16, 2012 2012. "The factorial validity of the work-family coping strategies-scale". In Presentation in Inaugural Meeting of the New Work and Family Researchers Network June 14-16, 2012, New York
23. Folkman, S. and Moskowitz, J.T. 2004. Coping: Pitfalls and promise. Annual Reviews, 55: 745-774.
24. Fox, E., Pascall, G. and Warren, T. 2009. Work-family policies, participation, and practices: Fathers and childcare in Europe. Community, Work & Family, 12: 313-326.
25. Frazier, P.A., Tix, A.P. and Barron, K.E. 2004. Testing moderator and mediator effects in counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51: 115-134.
26. Freund, A.M. and Baltes, P.B. 2002. Life management strategies of selection, optimization, and compensation: Measurement by self-report and construct validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82: 642-662.
27. Frone, M.R. 2003. "Work-family balance". In Handbook of occupational health psychology, Edited by: Quick, J.C. and Tetrick, L.E. 143-162. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
28. Galinsky, E. and Bond, J.T. 1996. "Work and family: Comparing the experiences of mothers and fathers in the U.S. labour force". In The American woman 1996-97, Edited by: Costello, C. and Krimgold, B.K. 79-103. Washington, DC: Women's Research and Education Institute.
29. Greenhaus, J.H. and Beutell, N.J. 1985. Sources of conflict between work and family roles. Academy of Management Review, 10: 76-88.
30. Greenhaus, J.H. and Powell, G.N. 2006. When work and family are allies: A theory of work-family enrichment. Academy of Management Review, 31: 72-92.
31. Grönlund, A. and Öun, I. 2010. Rethinking work-family conflict: Dual-earner policies, role conflict and role expansion in Western Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 20: 179-194.
32. Guppy, A., Edwards, J.A., Brough, P., Peters-Bean, K.M., Sale, C. and Short, E. 2004. The psychometric properties of the short version of the Cybernetic Coping Scale: A multigroup confirmatory factor analysis across four samples. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77: 39-62.
33. Haar, J.M. 2006. The downside of coping: Work-family conflict, employee burnout and the moderating effects of coping strategies. Journal of Management & Organization, 12: 146-159.
34. Hakim, C. 2006. Women, careers, and work-life preferences. British Journal of Guidance and Counseling, 34: 279-294.
35. Hall, D.T. 1972. A model of coping with role conflict: The role behavior of college-educated women. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17: 471-486.
36. Hobfoll, S.E. 1998. Stress, culture and community: The psychology and philosophy of stress, New York, NY: Plenum.
37. Hochschild, A. 1999. The second shift, New York, NY: Avon Books.
38. Holahan, C.J., Moos, R.H. and Schaefer, J.A. 1996. "Coping, stress resistance, and growth: Conceptualizing adaptive functioning". In Handbook of coping. Theory, research and applications, Edited by: Zeidner, M. and Endler, N.S. 24-44. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
39. Hook, J.L. and Wolfe, C.M. 2011. New fathers? Residential fathers' time with children in four countries. Journal of Family Issues, 33: 415-450.
40. Kroska, A. 2004. Divisions of domestic work: Revising and expanding the theoretical explanations. Journal of Family Issues, 25: 890-932.
41. Lazarus, R.S. 1966. Psychological stress and the coping process, New York, NY: Springer.
42. Lazarus, R.S. 1999. Stress and emotions: A new synthesis, London: Free Association Books.
43. Lazarus, R.S. and Folkman, S. 1984. Stress, appraisal, and coping, New York, NY: Springer.
44. Loscocco, K. and Spitze, G. 2007. Gender patterns in provider role attitudes and behavior. Journal of Family Issues, 28: 934-954.
45. Martinengo, G., Jacob, J.I. and Hill, E.J. 2010. Gender and the work-family interface: Exploring differences across the family life course. Journal of Family Issues, 31: 1363-1390.
46. Mauno, S., Kinnunen, U. and Rantanen, M. 2011. Work-family conflict and enrichment and perceived health: Does type of family matter?. Family Science, 2: 1-12.
47. Mauno, S. and Rantanen, M. 2012. Contextual and dispositional coping resources as predictors of work-family conflict and enrichment: Which of these resources of their combinations are the most beneficial?. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, doi:10.1007/s10834-012-9306-3
48. Mennino, S. and Brayfield, A. 2002. Job-family trade-offs: The multidimensional effects of gender. Work & Occupations, 29: 226-256.
49. Moen, P. and Sweet, S. 2004. From "work-family" to "flexible careers": A life course reframing. Community, Work and Family, 7: 209-226.
50. Neal, M. and Hammer, L. 2007. "Work-family coping strategies: What are the effects on work-family fit, well-being and work?". In Working couples caring for children and ageing parents, Edited by: Neal, M. and Hammer, L. 143-155. Mahwah, NJ: LEA.
51. Noonan, M.C., Estes, S.B. and Glass, J.L. 2007. Do workplace flexibility policies influence time spent in domestic labor?. Journal of Family Issues, 28: 263-288.
52. OECD. (2011). OECD Family Database. www.oecd.org/els/social/family/database (http://www.oecd.org/els/social/family/database)
53. Penley, J.A., Tomaka, J. and Wiebe, J.S. 2002. The association of coping to physical and psychological health outcomes: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 25: 551-603.
54. Petit, B. and Hook, J.L. 2009. Gendered tradeoffs: Family, social policy, and economic inequality in twenty-one countries, New York, NY: Russel Sage.
55. Rantanen, M., Mauno, S., Kinnunen, U. and Rantanen, J. 2011. Do individual coping strategies help or harm in the work-family conflict situation?. International Journal of Stress Management, 18: 24-48.
56. Rotondo, D.M., Carlson, D.S. and Kincaid, J.F. 2003. Coping with multiple dimensions of work-family conflict. Personnel Review, 32: 275-296.
57. Schmitt, N. 1996. Uses and abuses of coefficient alpha. Psychological Assessment, 8: 350-353.
58. Schwarzer, R. and Schwarzer, C. 1996. "A critical survey of coping instruments". In Handbook of coping. Theory, research and applications, Edited by: Zeidner, M. and Endler, N.S. 107-132. New York, NY: Wiley.
59. Shockley, K.M. and Allen, T.D. 2007. When flexibility helps? Another look at the availability of flexible work arrangements and work-family conflict. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71: 479-493.
60. Skinner, E.A., Edge, K., Altman, J. and Sherwood, H. 2003. Searching for the structure of coping: A review and critique of category systems for classifying ways of coping. Psychological Bulletin, 129: 216-269.
61. Somech, A. and Drach-Zahavy, A. 2007. Strategies for coping with work-family conflict: The distinctive relationships of gender role ideology. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12: 1-19.
62. Spector, P.E. 2006. Method variance in organizational research: Truth or urban legend?. Organizational Research Methods, 9: 221-232.
63. Finland, Statistics. 2012a. Families 2010, Helsinki: Official Statistics of Finland.
64. Finland, Statistics. 2012b. Labour force survey: Employment and unemployment in 2011, Helsinki: Official Statistics of Finland.
65. Steed, L.G. 1998. A critique of coping scales. Australian Psychologist, 33: 193-202.
66. Taylor, S.E. and Stanton, A. 2007. Coping resources, coping processes, and mental health. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3: 129-153.
67. Weiss, D.J. and Davidson, M.L. 1982. Test theory and methods. Annual Review of Psychology, 32: 629-658.
68. Westman, C. and Zimmerman, D.H. 1987. Doing gender. Gender & Society, 1: 125-151.
69. Wiese, B.S. 2002. Subjective career success and emotional well-being: Longitudinal predictive power of selection, optimization, and compensation. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 60: 321-335.