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Employed Caregivers’ Response to Family-Role Overload: the Role of Control-at-Home and Caregiver Type

Authors: Michael Halinski, Linda Duxbury, Maggie Stevenson

Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Issue 1/2020

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Drawing from role theory, stress and coping, and caregiving literatures, this paper develops a model of family-role overload involving two forms of caregiver burden (subjective, objective) and two types of maladaptive changes in employee behavior (at work, personal), and hypothesizes that caregiver type (eldercare-only vs. sandwich) moderates all paths in the model. Partial Least Squares structural equation modeling (SEM) supported all hypothesized direct paths. Contrary to our hypotheses, data analysis showed two positive relationships (i.e., objective caregiver burden to family-role overload, family-role overload to maladaptive changes in personal behavior) were stronger for those in the eldercare-only sample than for those in the sandwich sample. Post hoc analysis revealed five significant gender differences in the relationships included in our model. This study contributes to work–family theory by reinforcing the need to consider both caregiver type and gender when researching the challenges faced by employees trying to balance work and caregiving.

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We note that the challenges faced by employed caregivers in Canada have seen little change since the data was collected in 2012. The number of employed caregivers in Canada has, however, increased.

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Title: Employed Caregivers’ Response to Family-Role Overload: the Role of Control-at-Home and Caregiver Type
Authors: Michael Halinski
Linda Duxbury
Maggie Stevenson
Publication date: 28-04-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Electronic ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-019-09617-y

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