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Wiese, Bettina S.; Ritter, Johannes O. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Dealing with developmental tasks in work and family domains is an important challenge for young and middle-aged adults. We investigated a transition that has evolved into a normative task for women, namely, the retransition back to paid work following maternity leave. In a diary study with 149 mothers who had just returned to work, we examined the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Developmental Tasks, Mothers, Family Work Relationship
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Wiese, Bettina S.; Freund, Alexandra M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This study (N = 520 high-school students) investigates the influence of parental work involvement on adolescents' own plans regarding their future work involvement. As expected, adolescents' perceptions of parental work behavior affected their plans for own work involvement. Same-sex parents served as main role models for the adolescents' own…
Descriptors: Role Models, Adolescents, Employed Parents, Parent Child Relationship
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Weiss, David; Freund, Alexandra M.; Wiese, Bettina S. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The present research focuses on 2 factors that might help or hurt women to cope with the uncertainties associated with developmental transitions in modern societies (i.e., starting one's first job, graduating from high school, reentry to work after parental leave). We investigate (a) the role of openness to experience in coping with challenging…
Descriptors: Females, Self Efficacy, Longitudinal Studies, Ideology
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Seiger, Christine P.; Wiese, Bettina S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
On the basis of Conservation of Resources theory, we investigated how social support from supervisor, co-workers, life partner, and family members is associated with work-family conflicts in N=107 working mothers. We used data from a cross-sectional questionnaire and a standardized diary to examine two possible forms of interplay: (a) Social…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Family Work Relationship, Conflict, Supervisors
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Wiese, Bettina S.; Seiger, Christine P.; Schmid, Christian M.; Freund, Alexandra M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
The present paper deals with three positive facets of the work-family interplay, i.e., transfer of competencies, transfer of positive mood, and cross-domain compensation. The latter refers to the experience that engagement in one domain helps dealing with failures in the other domain. In two correlational studies (N[subscript 1] = 107 working…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Females, Psychological Patterns, Control Groups
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Wiese, Bettina S.; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
In a study of working adults (N = 131; Mean age = 43.52 yrs; 62 males) in Germany and Finland, the mean level of goal facilitation was found to be significantly higher than that of goal interference. Hence, many individuals seem to be rather successful in constructing a personal goal system that is functional in terms of supportive links. As…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables