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Are different generations of female employees trapped by work-family conflicts? A study on the impact of family-supportive supervisor behavior on thriving at work
Originally published 2024-06-21 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1339899 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about support conversations based on actual needs rather than age stereotypes; the original evidence concerns 279 female employees in China.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Do employees in different life stages need different kinds of family support?
This reading brings generational differences in family-supportive supervision, work-family balance and thriving into the trust pathway. The employee survey with generational comparisons offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
279 female employees in China
Age / stage: Working adults across generational cohorts
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess family-supportive behavior and thriving?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about comparisons across the reported generational cohorts?
- What would need to be checked before adopting support conversations based on actual needs rather than age stereotypes?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional cohort comparisons cannot separate age, generation and historical effects; findings concern this sample of female employees.
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Xiao Zhao; Tian Zhang; Myeongcheol Choi; Jingyi Xu (2024). Are different generations of female employees trapped by work-family conflicts? A study on the impact of family-supportive supervisor behavior on thriving at work Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1339899
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