Teachers' Occupation-Specific Work-Family Conflict

✍ Scribed by Rachel Gali Cinamon; Yisrael Rich; Mina Westman

• Book ID: 102287866
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-4019
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2007.tb00081.x

✦ Synopsis

To expand work‐family conflict (WFC) research to specific occupations, this study investigated how work and family generic and occupation‐specific stressors and support variables related to family interfering with work (F → W) and work interfering with family (W → F) among 230 Israeli high school teachers. Further expanding WFC research, the authors assessed WFC effects on burnout and vigor. Results indicated that W → F conflict was related to generic variables and more so to distinctive teaching characteristics (e.g., investment in student behavior and parent‐teacher relations). Both W → F and F → W predicted burnout, whereas only F → W predicted vigor. Implications for WFC research and occupational health programs are discussed.