TY - JOUR
T1 - Implications of work pressure and supervisor support for fathers', mothers' and adolescents' relationships and well-being in dual-earner families
AU - Ransford, Carolyn R.
AU - Crouter, Ann C.
AU - McHale, Susan M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Shawn Whiteman, the interviewers who collected these data and all of the families who participated in our study. This research was supported by grant R01-HD32336-02 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Ann C. Crouter and Susan M. McHale, Co-Principal Investigators).
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - The present study investigates the implications of work pressure and supervisor support for individual psychosocial functioning, marital and parent-adolescent relationships. We examined the effects of work pressure and supervisor support separately for mothers and fathers and their adolescent children (M=17.33 years) in 156 white working- and middle-class, dual-earner families. Results revealed when husbands reported high work pressure and low supervisor support, both parents reported higher levels of depressive symptoms. When wives were in the high pressure/low support group, they reported lower levels of marital love, and both spouses reported less marital satisfaction. When either parent was in the high pressure/low support group, both parents reported higher levels of role overload, and families experienced more conflict and less intimacy in their relationships with their children. Their children also reported higher levels of depressive symptoms. Results associated with parent and child depressive symptoms, however, varied by parent and child sex.
AB - The present study investigates the implications of work pressure and supervisor support for individual psychosocial functioning, marital and parent-adolescent relationships. We examined the effects of work pressure and supervisor support separately for mothers and fathers and their adolescent children (M=17.33 years) in 156 white working- and middle-class, dual-earner families. Results revealed when husbands reported high work pressure and low supervisor support, both parents reported higher levels of depressive symptoms. When wives were in the high pressure/low support group, they reported lower levels of marital love, and both spouses reported less marital satisfaction. When either parent was in the high pressure/low support group, both parents reported higher levels of role overload, and families experienced more conflict and less intimacy in their relationships with their children. Their children also reported higher levels of depressive symptoms. Results associated with parent and child depressive symptoms, however, varied by parent and child sex.
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U2 - 10.1080/13668800701785312
DO - 10.1080/13668800701785312
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:39049121637
SN - 1366-8803
VL - 11
SP - 37
EP - 60
JO - Community, Work and Family
JF - Community, Work and Family
IS - 1
ER -