Work-Family Conflicts of Older Women

描述(由申请人提供)：建议对同时照顾和工作责任如何影响老年黑人和白人妇女的身体健康和心理健康的方式进行纵向审查。不断增长的残疾老年人人口和劳动力中越来越多的老年妇女共同创造了当前和未来的老年妇女群体可能同时扮演彼此冲突的角色的可能性。通过增加我们对老年女性工作和家庭角色的理解，这项研究的结果将帮助越来越多的女性从她们的工作和照顾角色中找到满足感。它们将使商界的主要决策者敏感地认识到越来越多的老年女性工人面临的关键问题，并将向政策制定者提供有关这些角色相关成本的知识。这个为期5年的项目的具体目标是：(1)对比随机抽样的390名黑人和390名白人女性的经历，她们都在照顾依赖的老年人和工作，并检验Dilworth-Anderson等人开发的背景模型的方式。(1999)解释了这些女性经历的异同；(2)建立并检验了横截面模型的解释力]，在该模型中，工作和家庭的特征预测了老年女性的角色冲突、角色困扰、工作成本、心理健康和身体健康；(3)纵向考察了工作-照顾冲突和照顾-工作冲突之间的相互关系；(4)确定随着时间的推移，来自工作和照顾的冲突如何影响痛苦、工作成本、心理健康和身体健康；以及(5)对比老年妇女的工作成本、心理健康和身体健康，这些妇女随着时间的推移：(A)继续工作并为残疾的老年人提供护理，(B)离开劳动力大军并继续提供护理，以及(C)停止提供护理并继续工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Proposed is a longitudinal examination of the ways in which concurrent caregiving and work responsibilities affect the physical health and psychological well-being of older Black and White women. The combination of a burgeoning population of disabled elders and an increasing number of older women in the labor force create the potential for both current and future cohorts of older women to experience concurrent roles that are in conflict with one another. By increasing our understanding of the work and family roles of older women, results from this study will help growing numbers of women to find fulfillment from both their work and caregiving roles. They will sensitize key decision makers within the business world to the critical issues faced by growing numbers of older women workers, and will provide policymakers with knowledge about the costs associated with these roles. The specific aims of this 5-year project are to: (1) contrast the experiences of a random sample of 390 Black and 390 White women who both provide care to a dependent older person and work and to examine the ways in which the contextual model developed by Dilworth-Anderson et al. (1999) explains similarities and differences in the experiences of these women; (2) build and test the explanatory power of a cross-sectional mode] in which characteristics of work and family predict role conflict, role distress, work costs, psychological well-being, and physical health of older women; (3) examine longitudinally the reciprocal relationship between work-caregiving conflict and caregiving-work conflict; (4) determine the ways in which conflict from work and caregiving impact distress, work costs, psychological well-being, and physical health over time; and (5) contrast the work costs, psychological well-being, and physical health of older women who, over time: (a) continue to work and provide care to a disabled older person, (b) leave the work force and continue to provide care, and (c) stop providing care and continue to work.