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7. Work-Family Balance, Role Integration and Employee Well-Being

Authors : Ann Chunyan Peng, Remus Ilies, Nikos Dimotakis

Published in: Creating Balance?

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Researchers have long been interested in understanding the antecedents of subjective well-being, which has been generally defined as “how people evaluate their lives” (Diener et al., 2003, p. 404). A number of studies have adopted a top-down approach to predicting subjective well-being, whereby a person’s dispositional characteristics influence the level of life satisfaction that the person experiences (see Heller et al., 2004). On the other hand, there is also evidence for a bottom-up process whereby a person’s levels of satisfaction with specific life domains (e.g., work, marriage, etc) are combined to form an overall level of satisfaction with one’s life in general (Heller et al., 2004).

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Title: Work-Family Balance, Role Integration and Employee Well-Being
Authors: Ann Chunyan Peng
Remus Ilies
Nikos Dimotakis
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Creating Balance?
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-16198-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-16199-5

Copyright Year: 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_7