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Moving Beyond Work-Family: Establishing Domains Relevant to Work-Life Conflict

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Theoretically, inter-role conflict can occur between any life domains that place competing demands on an individual. However, inter-role conflict research has mainly focused on the conflict between only two domains: work and family. This limited focus is problematic because it has excluded many other potential life domains in which people participate. In order to focus more attention on other life domains, however, it is necessary to understand which life domains people are participating in. As such, the goal of the present qualitative research was to identify and define the full spectrum of life domains by asking two questions: What life domains are relevant to work-life conflict, and how do people value the various life domains in which they are involved? A total of 13 life domains emerged from the data. Participants engaged in an average of 9 of these domains, indicating that people engage in many activities in life outside just work and family.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/3246
Date06 March 2013
CreatorsCrask, Erin M.
ContributorsBoyd, Elizabeth, Williams, Jane R., Salyers, Michelle P.
Source SetsIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis

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