Work Stress in the Family Life of African Americans

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ID19005656
AuthorsClifford L Broman (0000-0002-1096-9873, Michigan State University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume31
Issue6
Pages835-846
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002193470103100608
OpenAlexW2119388602
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited18

Researchers have documented how work outside of the home has an impact on family life. These effects are both positive and negative. The obvious positive effects are the income and social status it brings. Not as obvious, but still important, is identity. Work provides people with an important sense of identity. It is not uncommon that people invest themselves in their work identity and thus become publicly and privately known by the work they do (see Thoits, 1999, for a further discussion of identity). This helps to give meaning and a sense of coherence to life. The literature that has focused on work outside of the home has been primarily concerned with three aspects: (a) unemployment and economic hard times, (b) home-to-work stress contagion and spillover stress from work to the home, and (c) stressful work experiences in the workplace that are reflective ofjob-related characteristics. This third area is the focus of this article. By job-related stressors, we refer to demands of a particular job. These demands have been conceptualized as consisting of three aspects: physical demands; psychosocial demands; and job decision-making capac

Aesthetics · Economic growth · Economics · Identity (music) · Meaning (existential) · Psychosocial · Sociology · Stressor · Unemployment · Work (physics) · Clinical Psychology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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