ERIC Number: EJ768854
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0889-4019
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Teachers' Occupation-Specific Work-Family Conflict
Cinamon, Rachel Gali; Rich, Yisrael; Westman, Mina
Career Development Quarterly, v55 n3 p249-261 Mar 2007
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 [right arrow] W) and work interfering with family (W [right arrow] F) among 230 Israeli high school teachers. Further expanding WFC research, the authors assessed WFC effects on burnout and vigor. Results indicated that W [right arrow] 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 [right arrow] F and F [right arrow] W predicted burnout, whereas only F [right arrow] W predicted vigor. Implications for WFC research and occupational health programs are discussed. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Secondary School Teachers, Conflict, Teacher Burnout, Occupational Safety and Health, Family Work Relationship, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Family Relationship, Teacher Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Teaching Conditions, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Coping
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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