Examining the Work–Family Experience of Female Workaholics

摘要: This chapter explores the unique experiences of workaholic women, with an emphasis on how this extreme devotion to work can lead high levels work-family conflict. The proposes that these negative effects are particularly keen for compared their male counterparts. It begins a brief description workaholism, followed by summary struggles woman, who reconcile societal expectations she should be intensively committed her family (schema devotion) inner drive heavily involved in (workaholic tendencies). In addition internal struggles, woman is likely chastised family, friends, and others extent at expense family. Finally, briefly summarizes results empirical study involving 215 working which examined discrete emotions provide one mechanism through woman’s behavior spill over negatively affect functioning another domain (i.e., work-to-family family-to-work conflict). One more surprising intriguing was workaholism positively related anger home, turn greater Implications discussed integrated into main ideas presented chapter. concludes points proposed agenda future research.