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Relation of Behavioral and Psychological Involvement to a New Four-Factor Conceptualization of Work-Family Interference

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The relation of role involvement to work-family interference has had inconsistent results in past research. By paying closer conceptual attention to the measurement of role involvement and work-family interference, this study addresses past inconsistent findings. First, a new four-factor measure of work-family interference is proposed that incorporates the dimension of externally generated versus internally generated conflict, which has been ignored in previous research. Second, role involvement is considered from both a behavioral and a psychological perspective. Data were obtained from a sample of 534 employed adults with families. The results suggest that a mapping of behavioral and psychological involvement to specific dimensions of external and internal work- family interference appears to be important when examining the general relation of role involvement to work-family interference.

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    Dawn S. Carlson

  2. State University of New York, Buffalo

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Carlson, D.S., Frone, M.R. Relation of Behavioral and Psychological Involvement to a New Four-Factor Conceptualization of Work-Family Interference. Journal of Business and Psychology 17, 515–535 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023404302295

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