Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Psychological Distress: A Secondary Analysis across Four Occupational Populations
Originally published 2022-06-26 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph19137845 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about supervisor training adapted to a specific workforce; the original evidence concerns 3778 employees across information technology, healthcare, military-connected Veterans and National Guard populations.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Does the support a supervisor offers feel different across kinds of work?
This reading brings family-supportive supervision and psychological distress across four occupational populations into the trust pathway. The secondary analysis of four occupational datasets offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
3778 employees across information technology, healthcare, military-connected Veterans and National Guard populations
Age / stage: Working adults; not exclusively parents
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess employee-rated family-supportive supervision?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about differences in support-distress associations across occupations?
- What would need to be checked before adopting supervisor training adapted to a specific workforce?
Keep the limits in view
Archival observational datasets and occupational differences limit causal and cross-population comparisons; family support is not a clinical treatment.
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Philip G Bouleh; Shalene J Allen; Leslie B Hammer (2022). Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Psychological Distress: A Secondary Analysis across Four Occupational Populations International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137845
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