Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2008. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Auckland, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-159).

Licentiatavhandling (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2005. / Härtill 2 uppsatser.

Thesis (PhD) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2004. / Also held in print (250 leaves, col. ill., 30 cm.) in Akoranga Theses Collection (T 618.92 DIC)

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2005. / Not embargoed. Vita. Bibliography: 132-150.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2005. / Not embargoed. Vita. Bibliography: 152-169.

Thesis (MComm (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Contemporary militaries are facing an increasing number of deployments compared to their previous counterparts. This is the result of globalisation and the acknowledgement of interdependence between various countries. The demand is even higher in the South African National Defence Force because of its geographical and socio-political position. Emanating from its position it is endowed with the task of stabilising the continent. This is an important task considering the fact that no country can experience stability and economic prosperity if its neighbours are unstable. The people performing the above highly venerated task are members of families with expectations. The demands posed by job demands in a form of deployment put tremendous pressure on even the healthiest of families. The situation is aggravated by the structure of most military families, cohesive nuclear families isolated from the support of extended families. The resulting conflict arising from the incompatibility affects all facets of a soldier’s life and his/her family. The inevitable consequences include stress, and attitudes such as job dissatisfaction, marital dissatisfaction, and low life satisfaction. The culmination of these negative consequences spill over to work performance and family stability. The family is the most disadvantaged domain because the military ethos enjoins soldiers to prioritise their work and treat the rest as secondary. This leads to an irrefutable destabilisation of families, which is a common experience in military families. The effects are more pronounced on women due to the social roles endowed on them. Their role in nurturance and emotional support make their absence more evident. The children are also not spared from the suffering. The effects of the fragmentation in the family affect their psychological wellbeing, their performance at school and their behaviour in general. The reunion often marks an apex of the tragedy. Returning parents find changes at home, some feel out of sync and others force their way into the families. The family roles have to be renegotiated, which is a process fraught with conflicts. The parents who gained prerogatives in the absence of their spouses are usually unwilling to relinquish their prominent positions. This result in conflicts, which prompt the dissolution of families, and in some cases, fathers withdraw and ask for unaccompanied long-term duties away from home.

Esta tese resultou de uma pesquisa que objetivou compreender a vivência dos dilemas pessoais de executivos bancários relativos à carreira em contexto de trabalho imaterial e suas repercussões nas relações familiares. Para tanto, em termos teóricos e com o objetivo de sustentar a tese, trabalhou-se com os conceitos de dilema, de subjetividade e estilos de vida apoiados especialmente em Bauman (2009; 2008; 2007a; 2007b; 2004), Pelbart (2000), Guatarri e Rolnik (2005) e Gaulejac (2007); de carreira, especialmente nos modelos que de carreira sem fronteira e proteana (SULLIVAN e ARTHUR, 2006; HALL, 1996), de trabalho imaterial amparado em autores tais como Lazzarato e Negri (2001), Lazzarato (2008; 2004), Negri (2009; 2008; 2003), Pelbart (2000; 2003) e Grisci (2008). Foram entrevistados dezesseis executivos bancários de Porto Alegre e da região metropolitana, bem como quinze representantes de suas relações familiares. As entrevistas estruturadas foram realizadas com os executivos bancários em seus ambientes de trabalho e com os familiares ocorreram em suas residências ou em estabelecimentos comerciais por eles indicados. A análise dos dados foi realizada de maneira qualitativa e seguiu as orientações propostas por Minayo (2001). Os resultados indicaram dilemas relativos à mobilidade espacial e funcional, e à privação da convivência. A existência dos dilemas não se mostrou inédita, porém, na contemporaneidade, eles tomam a vida profissional e pessoal dos sujeitos independentemente de limites espaço-temporais, afetando o modo de viver do executivo bancário e de sua família. Esta configuração está relacionada a um “modelo” de carreira profissional meteórica, de responsabilidade única do próprio trabalhador, em um contexto em que prevalece o trabalho imaterial (LAZZARATO e NEGRI, 2001). / This thesis stems from an exploratory research which aimed to discern the personal dilemmas related to the banking executives’ career are currently shaped and understand how these dilemmas are twisted with their family relationships. In order to do so, to theoretically support this thesis, the following concepts were taken up: dilemma, subjectivity and life style, particularly as regarded in Bauman (2009; 2008; 2007a; 2007b; 2004), Pelbart (2000), Guatarri and Rolnik (2005) and Gaulejac (2007); career, especially in the light of the models of borderless and protean career (SULLIVAN and ARTHUR, 2006; HALL, 1996); immaterial work, as approached by authors like Lazzarato and Negri (2001), Lazzarato (2008; 2004), Negri (2009; 2008; 2003), Pelbart (2000; 2003) and Grisci (2008). The interviews were conducted with sixteen banking executives from Porto Alegre and the metropolitan area, and also with fifteen representatives from their family relations. The structured interviews were conducted with the banking executives within their work environments, while the interviews with family members occurred in their homes or in stores suggested by them. Data were analyzed in a qualitative way and followed the guidelines proposed by Minayo (2001). Results suggest the existence of dilemmas related to spatial and functional mobility and social life dispossession. The existence of these dilemmas is not a novelty. However, nowadays they take over the individual’s professional and personal lives regardless of time and space limits. This, in turn, affects the executive and his family’s way of life. Such configuration is connected to a “model” of meteoric professional career, which is the responsibility of the worker alone, in a context where immaterial work prevails (LAZZARATO and NEGRI, 2001).

Esta dissertação objetivou analisar como o conflito conjugal circula nas famílias, compreendendo seu papel no desenvolvimento da prole. Foi realizada uma revisão sistemática da literatura nacional e internacional dos últimos 10 anos sobre o efeito spillover. Os resultados apontam as consequências de conflitos construtivos e destrutivos para casais e filhos, além da escassez de publicações brasileiras sobre a temática. Em seguida realizou-se um estudo empírico com 179 famílias, analisando as opiniões e comportamentos de filhos e casais durante seus conflitos, através das escalas Conflict resolution styles inventory, Children’s perception of interparental conflict e Children’s action tendency scale. Encontrou-se que os filhos identificam os desentendimentos entre seus pais e que isso tem um impacto em seus sentimentos e atitudes. Houve associação entre a forma como casais e filhos encaminham seus conflitos. Refletiu-se sobre as possibilidades de prática nesse contexto, dada a importância sobre a temática para a saúde familiar. / This work aimed to analyze how marital conflict runs in families. A systematic review about the spillover effect was performed in national and international literature of the last 10 years. The results showed the consequences of constructive and destructive conflicts to couples and their offspring. It also points out the dearth of Brazilian publication in that area. Following, an empirical study was done with 179 families. The reports of children and couples about their disagreements and their behavior in these occasions were analyzed by Conflict resolution styles inventory, Children's perception of interparental conflict and Children's action tendency scale. Results showed that children identify disagreements between their parents and that this has an impact on their feelings and attitudes towards life. There was an association between the conflict resolution strategies of couples and children. The possibilities of work in this context were discussed, given the importance of the theme to family health.

Coparenting emerges across the transition to parenthood and refers to the way individuals coordinate, support each other in their parental roles and share responsibility in childrearing. Despite the increase in research on coparenting, relatively few studies have focused on non- North American or non-European families, which has hindered practice and policy targeting diverse countries. Likewise, qualitative research on coparenting is relatively rare, yet critical to shed light on details and complexities not well captured by other methods, including insights into sociocultural factors linked to coparenting in distinct contexts. Moreover, a qualitative longitudinal approach is particularly well suited to examine important life course transitions and turning points, such as the transition to parenthood. To address these gaps, we investigated coparenting across the transition to parenthood in South-Brazilian families, using a qualitative, longitudinal, multiple case study. Semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 12 first-time mother and fathers (six nuclear families altogether), at 6, 12, and 18 months postpartum (36 interviews altogether). In two families only the father was employed, with the mother caring for the child; in two families both parents were employed, and they hired a nanny to care for the child in their home; and, in two families both parents were employed, and the child started attending daycare at the end of maternity leave. Through the two articles that comprise the current doctoral dissertation, we explored three components of Feinberg’s (2003) coparenting framework: division of labor (how parents divide childcare tasks and household chores, as well as their satisfaction with this division); agreement/disagreement (e.g., regarding children’s emotional needs and discipline); and, support/undermining (appreciation and cooperation, or criticism and competition). The first article is focused on the division of labor, whereas the second is focused on agreement/disagreement and support/undermining. Deductive thematic analysis revealed similarities and singularities between families. As presented in the first article, we found weaker sharing of household chores over time, against greater sharing of childcare tasks during the first few days postpartum, followed by a downward tendency in the fathers’ contributions during the first few months postpartum. This more unequal division of labor remained stable over time only for families who had chosen maternal care, changing after the end of maternity leave for families who had chosen nanny care and daycare. Parental satisfaction regarding the division of labor remained relatively high over time only for families who had chosen nanny care, which suggests that counting on a domestic worker since the beginning of the transition to parenthood contributed to preventing parental feelings of overload or unfairness across the transition to parenthood. Findings were discussed in the 10 light of the role that instrumental and social support, as well as the prevailing Brazilian gender norms, may play in the division of labor for new parents. With respect to the second article, our findings showed that agreement among parents remained relatively stable during the first year, whereas disagreements concerning discipline demanded more parental negotiation as infants advanced toward toddlerhood. Support and undermining coexisted in the same families, although mothers and fathers expressed undermining differently. Aspects of the ecological context, such as family of origin, instrumental and social support, as well as labor market, also appeared to influence coparenting agreement/disagreement and support/ undermining. Following each article, we presented strengths, limitations, suggestions for future research, as well as implications for practice (e.g., counseling) and policy (e.g., childcare arrangements and parental leave).