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Working parent friendly schools: the role of school instrumental support in work–family conflict

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Pages 164-190 | Received 03 Feb 2010, Accepted 19 Sep 2012, Published online: 01 Nov 2012
 

Abstract

Instrumental support can foster or ameliorate parent experiences of work–family conflict. Based on theories relating social support to stress, a framework for considering how school support affects work–family conflict is proposed and tested. Parent experiences of instrumental support (school schedules, school service provision, and staff accessibility) and school demands on parents (volunteer and homework involvement) were investigated in relation to levels of work–family conflict. Work demands were related to both family-interference-with-work and work-interference-with family; family demands related only to time-based family-interference-with-work. Perceptions of school scheduling as supportive were related negatively to both time- and strain-based work-interference-with family, whereas perceptions of school transportation services were related to both time- and strain-based family-interference-with-work. No buffering effects of these types of support were found. Implications for how community organizations can play a role in ameliorating work–family conflict are discussed.

El apoyo instrumental puede fomentar o puede mejorar experiencias de padre de conflicto de trabajo-familia. Basado sobre teorías que relacionan apoyo social enfatizar, una armazón para teniendo en cuenta cómo apoyo de escuela afecta conflicto de trabajo-familia es propuesto y es probado. Críe experiencias de apoyo instrumental (horarios de escuela, educan provisión de servicio, provee accesibilidad) y demandas de escuela en padres (participación de voluntario y deberes) fueron investigados en relación con niveles de conflicto de trabajo-familia. Las demandas del trabajo fueron relacionadas a ambos de interferencia familiar con interferencia de trabajo y trabajo con la familia; la familia demanda relacionado sólo a tiempo se basó de interferencia familiar con el trabajo. Las percepciones de planificar de escuela como sostenedor fueron relacionados negativamente a tanto tiempo como esfuerzo se basaron interferencia de trabajo con la familia, mientras que las percepciones de servicios de transporte de escuela fueron relacionadas a tanto tiempo como esfuerzo se basaron de interferencia familiar con el trabajo. Ningún efectos que amortiguan de estos tipos de apoyo fueron encontrados. Las implicaciones para cómo organizaciones de comunidad pueden hacer un papel a mejorar conflicto de trabajo-familia es discutido.

Acknowledgements

Portions of this research were funded by a grant from the Families and Communities Together coalition at Michigan State University.

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