Coping with Role Overload

Abstract

(from the chapter) work described in this chapter represents a shift from the investigation of acute life events to that of chronic role strains and conflict between roles / begin . . . by offering a theoretical rationale for this shift in focus / provide an overview of our research program, which includes three studies on coping with role strain and role conflict / focus . . . on the initial findings from one of these studies, a four-wave longitudinal investigation of married women professionals with preschool children / examine such issues as equality in division of labor between these women and their husbands; frequency of conflicts between work and family roles for women and men; consequences of role involvement for self-esteem and feelings of pride; problems created by trying to combine multiple roles and differences in how these problems are experienced by men and women; and, finally, "spillover" from the woman's work situation to her home life and to her husband (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)