How Do Changes in Family Role Status Impact Employees? An Empirical Investigation. By: Perrigino, M., Kossek, E., Thompson, R., & Bodner, T. 2021. Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences. Vol. 4 Issue 5, p393-409.
Purpose
Despite the proliferation of work–family research, a thorough understanding of family role status changes (e.g. the gaining of elder or child caregiving responsibilities) remain under-theorized and under-examined. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize various forms of family role status changes and examine the ways in which these changes influence various employee outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected as part of the work–family health study. Using a longitudinal, three-wave study with two-time lags of 6 months (n = 151 family role status changes; n = 392 individuals with family role stability), this study uses one-way analysis of variance to compare mean differences across groups and multilevel modeling to examine the predictive effects of family role status changes.