Employment, Stress and Family Functioning

Part 1 Work, employment and family functioning: work and family in the twentieth century - a historical synopsis; the importance of studying work and family functioning. Part 2 Work, employment and family functioning - conceptual and definitional issues: an "open systems" approach to employment and family functioning; classifying events and their outcomes - stressors, stress and strain; the effect of stressor type on the duration and nature of strain; going beyond the family and employment systems. Part 3 Objective employment characteristics and marital functioning: temporal employment characteristics and marital functioning; employment time and marital functioning; shift work and marital functioning; the "family work day"; flexible work schedules and marital functioning; job-related transfers and marital functioning; objective employment characteristics and marital functioning. Part 4 Subjective employment experiences and marital functioning: job stress; employment experiences; job satisfaction and marital satisfaction; perceived financial strain and marital functioning; subjective employment experiences and marital functioning. Part 5 Wives' employment status and marital functioning: wives" employment status and wives" marital functioning; wives' psychological well-being; employed wives' global marital satisfaction; wives' employment status and husbands' marital functioning; status incompatibility - relative occupational status of spouses. Part 6 Wives' subjective employment experiences and marital functioning: wives' job experiences and psychological well-being; the many roles of employed wives; going beyond interrole conflict - additional role experiences. Part 7 Maternal employment and children's behaviour - new perspectives on an old phenomenon: maternal employment status and children's behaviour; maternal employment status and mother-child interactions; children's perceptions of maternal employment; future directions for understanding and researching maternal employment. Part 8 Fathers' employment and children's behaviour: fathers' objective employment characteristics and their children; intergenerational occupational choice - like father, like son?; fathers' subjective work experiences and their children's behaviour. Part 9 Unemployment and family functioning: contrasting unemployment in the 1930s and 1980s; unemployment and psychological well-being; unemployment and family functioning. Part 10 Employment, unemployment and family functioning - concluding thoughts: conceptual issues in the interdependence between family and employment; implications for research on employment and the family; practical implications; some remaining employment/family issues.