Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
✍ Scribed by Amiram D. Vinokur; Penny F. Pierce; Catherine L. Buck
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
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✦ Synopsis
This paper examined the eects of work and family stressors and con¯icts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative strati®ed samples of 525 Air Force women from the active duty reserve and guard forces. The analyses of the data are guided by the comprehensive model of work±family con¯ict that has been tested by Frone, Russell, and Cooper (1992) using a large representative community sample. Structural equation modeling analyses provided support for the work±family con¯ict model. The analyses also provided support for an extension of the model, which included the separate eects of marital and parental roles on mental health. The extended model demonstrated that job and parental stresses had direct eects on work±family con¯icts and that job and marital distress and family± work con¯ict had an independent adverse eect on mental health. Whereas job and parental involvement had a bene®cial eect on distress, they had an adverse eect on work±family con¯icts.