title: Anticipating Work and Family: Experience, Conflict, and Planning in the
 Transition to Adulthood
creator: Campbell, Elizabeth L.
contributor: Campbell, Vicki L.
contributor: Schneider, Lawrence
contributor: Watkins, C. Edward
publisher: University of North Texas
date: 2011-08
language: English
description: The purpose of this study was to examine the development of work
 and family plans in young adults, and to clarify the long-term stability,
 prevalence, and consequences of anticipated work-family conflict. The study
 utilizes Super’s model of career development and social cognitive career
 theory, as well as research on current work-family interface, as a framework
 for understanding the period of anticipating and planning for multiple role
 integration that occurs between adolescence and adulthood. A sample of 48 male
 and 52 female college students assessed two years prior completed self-report
 questionnaires measuring work, marriage, and parenting experience; anticipated
 work-family conflict; and multiple-role planning. Results of this study
 suggest that students desire both a career and a family, and recognize
 potential challenges of a multiple-role lifestyle. Such recognition of
 anticipated work-family conflict varies by conflict domains and measurement
 methods, but remains stable over two years. Results also suggest that
 anticipated work-family conflict does not mediate the relationship between
 experience and planning; instead, marriage experience predicts planning
 directly. Implications for the findings are discussed as are suggestions for
 directions of new research concerning anticipated work-family conflict and
 planning for multiple roles.
subject: Anticipated work-family conflict
subject: planning
subject: college students
rights: Public
rights: Campbell, Elizabeth L.
rights: Copyright
rights: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights
 reserved.
type: Thesis or Dissertation
format: Text
identifier: local-cont-no: campbell_elizabeth
identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84183/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc84183