SEX, GENDER, AND THE WORK-TO-FAMILY INTERFACE: EXPLORING NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Powell, Gary N.; Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.
• 署名单位: University of Connecticut; Drexel University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2010.51468647
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 513-534
• 关键词: IDENTITY THEORY; ROLE INVENTORY; CONFLICT; job; women; self; men; involvement; validation; SALIENCE

摘要

This study of full-time managers and professionals examined whether variables selected from theories of the psychology of gender as well as identity, boundary, and role theories explained effects of sex on work-to-family conflict and positive spillover. Women experienced higher positive spillover than men, primarily because they were higher in femininity. Although women did not experience different levels of conflict than men, individuals who scored higher on measured family role salience, which was positively related to femininity, experienced lower levels of conflict. Role segmentation not only reduced conflict but also had the unintended consequence of reducing positive spillover.