Submitted by Ana Carla Almeida (ana.almeida@ucsal.br) on 2017-08-31T12:59:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESEANAPAULA.pdf: 2015452 bytes, checksum: 15717bccdb3784b95a9c8973a64dd7f8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rosemary Magalhães (rosemary.magalhaes@ucsal.br) on 2017-08-31T13:46:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESEANAPAULA.pdf: 2015452 bytes, checksum: 15717bccdb3784b95a9c8973a64dd7f8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-31T13:46:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESEANAPAULA.pdf: 2015452 bytes, checksum: 15717bccdb3784b95a9c8973a64dd7f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-18 / A presente tese visa apresentar e analisar a conjunção - conflito familiar e Síndrome da Alienação Parental, tendo em vista o alcance da efetiva resolução dos conflitos com o objetivo precípuo de demarcar contornos jurídicos de proteção à criança e ao adolescente diante dos novos modelos de família, desvendando as nuances inerentes a este tipo de conflito, refletindo sobre a utilização da mediação como um caminho. Utiliza-se a análise de dados bibliográficos, documentais, jurisprudências e empíricos, mediante a realização de entrevistas e aplicação de questionários, a partir de uma perspectiva metodológica, fundada na compreensão e aplicação do Direito em sintonia com os princípios normativos da nossa Constituição Brasileira de 1988 e demais instrumentos jurídicos. Neste esteio o trabalho perpassa desde a discussão acerca da Alienação (conceitos, caracteristicas, modus operandi, do conflito decorrente às disputas de guarda de crianças e adolescentes e dos meios adequados de resolução destas controvérsias e os reflexos do ensino jurídico neste panorama. Assim, a presente investigação apresenta as suas conclusões sobre a alienação parental como uma questão preocupante, tendo em vista a necessidade de se re-significar o conflito familiar ante os danos causados aos envolvidos em uma relação parental inevitavelmente continuada e a adequação da utilização da mediação familiar como forma de resolução desta natureza de disputas. / This thesis presents and analyzes the interconnection between family conflict and the Parental Alienation Syndrome, given the reach had by effective conflict resolutions that aim to define legal boundaries to the protection of children and adolescents, considering the new family models in place, thereby uncovering the nuances that are inherent to such conflicts, and pondering the recourse of mediation as a valid path. It makes use of bibliographical, documentary, case precedent and empirical data analyses by means of interviews and surveys, from a methodological perspective based on an understanding and application of Law that is in line with the normative principles of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution and other legal instruments. This work, therefore, includes the alienation debate (concepts, characteristics, themodus operandi of conflicts resulting from child and adolescent custody disputes) and the appropriate means to settle such controversies, as well as the repercussions brought by legal education to the general order of things. This research then presents its findings wherein parental alienation is a matter of concern, given the need to re-signify family conflicts due to the damage caused to those involved in an inevitably ongoing parental relationship, and the fine-tuning of family mediation practice as a way to settle disputes of this nature.

abstract: In recent years, women have made significant advances in traditionally male occupations. Despite this progress, women are still underrepresented in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and the model of Achievement Related Choices are two widely accepted career development theories. Both theories highlight the importance of self-efficacy and personal factors in career development; yet, neither of them has considered the predictive power of a specific outcome expectation, anticipated work family conflict (AWFC), in relation to the career development of men and women in STEM undergraduate programs. The purpose of this study was to assess the incremental validity of AWFC over and above that of self-efficacy and role salience, in predicting educational and occupational aspirations of undergraduate students in STEM programs at a large southwestern university. The study provides evidence that the factor structure of the AWFC scale does not hold up with the undergraduate population, and this finding was seen as reason to combine the AWFC subscales into one composite score. In a hierarchical multiple regression higher levels of STEM self-efficacy predicted higher intentions to persist in STEM. Role salience, AWFC, and the gender-AWFC interaction were not significantly related to intentions to persist. Although the study does not provide evidence for the incremental validity of AWFC, it does suggest that work-family balance considerations that have been observed in mature STEM populations may not yet be salient for students at the undergraduate level. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Counseling Psychology 2014

This is a study of a local society and its interaction with central government observed through routine administrative systems. Although Northumberland has been the focus of detailed investigation during the late middle ages, a gap in scholarship remains for much of the first half of the fifteenth century. As England’s most northerly county, work on the relationship between provincial society, peripheries of the realm and the crown is critical to this study. This research tests assumptions that Northumberland was feudal, lawless, distant and difficult for the crown to administer. The research consists of two parts: the first is an evaluation of social structure; the second explores the administrative machine. It opens with a survey of feudal tenure. Chapter two examines the wealth of resident landholders. Chapter three outlines the genealogies of landed society and their relationship to one another as a ‘county community’. Chapter four expands on family connections to incorporate the bond of spiritual kinship. Chapter five charts the scope of social networks disclosed though the management of property, personal affairs and dispute. Chapter six considers the inquisitions post mortem (IPM) process and the impact of distance. Chapter seven discusses jurors and their place in county society. Original contributions to knowledge are made in a number of areas. The theme of spiritual kinship has not been developed in any county study of this period. Additional information concerning the county return for the 1435 subsidy on land is provided, which has previously been overlooked. The location of a copy of the escheator’s oath created in response to a statute of 1429, which has not been captured in recent studies, resolves the current ambiguity concerning the statutory requirement of an indented inquisition return.

The present exploratory study examines family conflict style as a correlate of commitment to the family of origin in a one-stage random cluster sample of 200 university students between the ages of 18 and 25. The hypothesis rests on the theoretical assumption that family climate factors, such as conflict, influences commitment to the family of origin. I argue that family conflict style (adaptive or maladaptive) is associated with the level of commitment to the family of origin. Surveys are utilised to collect data in the present study which includes two scales, namely the Family Conflict Style Scale (FCS) and the Family Commitment Scale (FC). The Family Commitment Scale (FC) is an adaptation of Rusbult’s (1998) Investment Model Commitment scale and the Family Conflict Scale (FCS) is a new scale that was constructed for the purpose of the present study, derived from Gottman’s (1993) definitions of couple conflict styles, in order to examine conflict styles within a family and to examine the correlations to see whether family conflict style can be associated with commitment. The Family Resilience Framework (Walsh, 2003) and the Marital Spillover Hypothesis (Gerard, Krishnakumar & Buehler, 2009) guides the present study in better understanding how the constructs marital conflict style and commitment can also be viewed as systemic variables influencing the entire family. Results revealed that all correlations between conflict styles and commitment to the family of origin were found to be significant at the -.01 level. Findings support the value in exploring family conflict style in relation to commitment to the family of origin and, for the current sample, suggest that a more adaptive conflict style positively relates to the level of commitment whereas a maladaptive conflict style negatively relates to the level of commitment to the family of origin. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / lk2014 / Educational Psychology / MEd / Unrestricted

Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS) / Work and family are the central and salient domains in an individual's life. Juggling work and family life have always been a challenge for many employees and families (Hammer et al., 2005). However, with the increased interest in the construct of workfamily enrichment, more attention was given to the positive influences across the life domains. Grzywacz and Butler (2005) found that work-family enrichment improved mental and physical well-being. The objective of this study was twofold; (i) to explore and add to existing research done on work-family enrichment and (ii) investigate the relationships between workfamily enrichment, psychological health and subjective wellbeing of employees within a financial services organisation in South Africa. Three hundred and forty seven questionnaires were administered and one hundred and sixty eight completed questionnaires were returned. Purposive sampling was used to select employees to participate in the study. Data was collected by a self-developed biographical questionnaire, Calson, Kacmar, Wayne, and Grzywacz's (2006) Enrichment Scale, General Health Questionnaire developed by Kalliath, O'Driscoll and Brough (2004) and the Personal Wellbeing Index developed by the International Wellbeing Group (2006). The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data and to interpret the descriptive and inferential statistics. Specifically the Pearson Moment Correlation analysis and the T-Test was used. The results indicated that a relationship between work-to-family enrichment and psychological health exist. There was a significant relationship for family-to-work enrichment and psychological health. Furthermore, results indicated a significant relationship between work-to-family enrichment and subjective wellbeing. A significant relationship between family-to-work enrichment and subjective wellbeing was also found. However, no significant differences were found for gender for both work-to-family and family-to-work enrichment. Future considerations, theoretical implications and recommendations for organisations are discussed.

Work and family embody two of the most fundamental areas of adult life. The increased participation in the labour force of working women with children has had a major impact on the work and family interface. Theories of work and family have been incorporated to analyse potential relationships of conflict with undesirable work outcomes such as reduced job satisfaction and burnout. The study investigates whether work-family conflict ultimately leads to working women with children’s experiences of burnout and lower job satisfaction. The research study also explores the effects of the mother-role identity on the manifestation of family and work conflict in working women with children and posits that working women with children experience role salience differently from other working women without children. The study employed a quantitative research design using electronic self-administered questionnaires. Using the data from 545 employees in a fast-moving consumer goods industry showed that working women with children who identified closer with the mother-role identity, experienced greater work-family conflict. The mother-role identity forms a greater part of working women with children’s self than that of the employee-role identity and the results infer that role identity plays a significant role when conflict is experienced. In working women with children, strong relationships were found between family-work conflict and burnout, and moderate inverse relationships between work-family conflict and job satisfaction. Work-family conflict may ultimately lead working women with children to experience higher burnout and lower job satisfaction owing to their preoccupation with family-related responsibilities. The concept of role identity is introduced as a significant variable to consider into the work and family conflict investigation, as well as in the development of burnout and job satisfaction for working women with children. The current research also assists in understanding the work and family role integration of working women with children and provides a consolidated overview of the current work and family theories within a conceptual and unifying model. This research offers an explanatory model that outlines the relationship between the independent and dependent variables, by investigating the mechanisms by virtue of which such relationships exist. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

This study examines the role of race, socioeconomic status, and individualism-collectivism as moderators of the relationship between selected work and family antecedents and work-family conflict and evaluates the contribution of energy-based conflict to the work-family conflict (WFC) research. The study uses data obtained from a survey questionnaire given to 414 participants recruited from an online labor market. Study hypotheses were tested through structural equation modeling. The results indicate that while moderating effects were slight, a proposed model where energy-based conflict is included outperforms traditional time/strain/behavior-based models and that established variables may drop to non-significance when additional variables are included in prediction. In addition, novel individual difference variables such as individualism and collectivism were demonstrated to have effects beyond moderating antecedent-outcome relationships in the model. The findings imply that WFC models would benefit from the inclusion of variables found in the current study.

This study employs qualitative diaries and in-depth interviews with dual-earner couples in order to investigate how the demands of work and family responsibilities are negotiated on a daily basis. The methods used are novel in that in-depth interviews were conducted initially with both members of the couple present, and subsequently with each individual separately. Diaries were also completed by each individual privately, as a means of eliciting their experiences of decision-making in a real-time basis. It is argued that the use of such in-depth qualitative analysis enabled new and important findings to emerge, including distinguishing between different types of decision-making, uncovering important new decision-making cues, and gaining a greater insight into those cues previously acknowledged. The findings also demonstrate how these cues have an impact on decision-making in the context of both parties in the couple. In using both couples and individuals as levels of analysis it is possible to identify how this interdependence is manifested whilst also allowing for the discovery of important strategies used by the couples on a daily basis to resolve work-family conflicts. Balancing work and family is shown to be a continuous work in progress and the methodology used here allowed the daily dynamics of that work in progress to be revealed.

Young women today are anticipating involvement in both career and family. The competing demands of family and work often result in work-family conflict. A survey was administered to 124 female college students exploring the importance they place on work and family roles, the expectations they have for combining these roles, and their attitudes toward planning for multiple roles. Identity theory provides a foundation for understanding the choices women make regarding their anticipated participation in work and family roles. The results suggest that although college women are expecting to have demanding careers and involved family lives, they are not planning realistically in order to facilitate the combining of career and family roles with a minimum of conflict.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka enhetschefers upplevelser av arbete-familj konflikten i en mellanstor kommun i Sverige, med fokus på eventuella könsrelaterade skillnader. Datamaterial samlades in via semistrukturerade intervjuer med 9 enhetschefer i en mellanstor kommun i Sverige. Genom kriteriestyrt urval valdes respondenter med barn i åldrarna 0–12 år ut att medverka i studien. Respondenterna kontaktades via mail och bokades in till en fysisk eller digital intervju. Det insamlade materialet analyserades genom en induktiv tematisk analys. I den tematiska analysen framkom emotionellt ansvar, socialt stöd, egen tid och känslan av otillräcklighet som återkommande teman. Respondenterna upplevde sig sammantaget vara ganska nöjda och ansåg sig leva i jämställda parrelationer. Trots den upplevda tillfredställelsen påvisade resultatet i studien vissa könsrelaterade skillnader, främst gällande emotionellt ansvar. De kvinnliga respondenterna uttryckte i större uträckning att de tog ett större emotionellt ansvar, vilket kan tolkas vara en orsak till upplevd obalans och bidra till högre nivåer av arbete-familj konflikt. Hos de manliga respondenterna var avsaknad av socialt stöd och låg energi två anledningarna till upplevd obalans och högre nivåer av arbetefamilj konflikt.