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ERIC Number: EJ946566
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Dec
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0001-8791
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Eldercare Demands, Strain, and Work Engagement: The Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Support
Zacher, Hannes; Winter, Gabriele
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v79 n3 p667-680 Dec 2011
Demographic changes give rise to an increasing number of middle-aged employees providing home-based care to an elderly family member. However, the potentially important role of employees' perceptions of organizational support for eldercare has so far not been investigated. The goal of this study was to examine a stressor-strain-outcome model (Koeske & Koeske, 1993) of eldercare strain as a mediator of the relationship between eldercare demands and caregivers' work engagement. Perceived organizational eldercare support was expected to attenuate the positive relationship between eldercare demands and eldercare strain and to buffer the negative relationship between eldercare strain and work engagement. Results of mediation and moderated mediation analyses with data collected from 147 employees providing eldercare supported the hypotheses. The findings suggest that perceived organizational eldercare support is especially beneficial for employees' work engagement when eldercare demands and strain are high. (Contains 3 figures and 3 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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