There is evidence that personal and family life is closely related to work satisfaction. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between work and home and family satisfaction of Florida home economics teachers. The sample consisted of a proportional random sample of the population of Florida secondary consumer homemaking and occupational home economics teachers. A 67% return of mailed questionnaires resulted in 194 useable questionnaires from 13% of the population. The Work, Home and Family Questionnaire (Festehausen, Glosson, Couch, & Cripps, 1986) was used to collect data on work satisfaction, home life satisfaction, stress factors, and the difficulty of managing work and home responsibilities. / One or more stressors were indicated as present by 63.4% of the respondents. The teachers reported their lives to be moderately stressful. Work satisfaction was measured by 22 items related to the work environment. The mean response on all 22 items indicated a fairly high degree of work satisfaction. Home and family satisfaction was measured by 28 home and family items. The mean response on all 28 items indicated a fairly high degree of home and family satisfaction. / Pearson Product Moment correlations at $>.0001$ level of significance revealed significant, positive relationships between the measures of work satisfaction and of home and family satisfaction. Significant correlations were found at $>.001$ between the degree of work satisfaction and of home and family satisfaction and the amount of difficulty of managing work and home responsibilities. The greater the degree of difficulty in managing work and home responsibilities the less the satisfaction gained from either work or home and family. Significant, negative correlations were found between the levels of stress and work and home satisfactions. As stress increased work satisfaction and home and family satisfaction decreased. / Analysis of variance revealed no significant differences at $>$.05 between work satisfaction and ten demographic characteristics. Significant differences were found at $>$.05 between home satisfaction and the demographic characteristics of marital status, family income, and average class size. Significant differences were found at $>$.05 between the degree of difficulty of managing work and home responsibilities and age, race, number of children and type of community. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: B, page: 0520. / Major Professor: Ruth Pestle. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77945 |
| Contributors | St. John, Nancy Williams., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 167 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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