Work-Family Conflicts of Older Women

描述（由申请人提供）：提出的是一个纵向检查的方式，同时工作和工作责任影响身体健康和心理健康的老年黑人和白色妇女。残疾老年人口的迅速增长和劳动力中老年妇女人数的不断增加，使当前和未来的老年妇女群体有可能同时经历相互冲突的角色。通过增加我们对老年妇女工作和家庭角色的理解，这项研究的结果将有助于越来越多的妇女从工作和家庭角色中找到满足感。它们将使商业界的关键决策者敏感地认识到越来越多的老年女工所面临的关键问题，并将使决策者了解与这些角色有关的费用。这一为期5年的项目的具体目标是：（1）对390名黑人和390名白色妇女的经验进行随机抽样对比，她们既照顾受抚养的老年人，又工作，并审查Dille-Anderson等人（1999年）开发的背景模式如何解释这些妇女经验的异同;（2）建立并检验了工作和家庭特征对老年妇女的角色冲突、角色苦恼、工作成本、心理幸福感和身体健康的预测能力：（3）纵向考察了工作-家庭冲突和工作-工作冲突之间的相互关系;（4）确定工作冲突和生活冲突如何随着时间的推移影响痛苦、工作成本、心理健康和身体健康;（5）对比老年妇女的工作成本、心理健康和身体健康，随着时间的推移，她们：（a）继续工作并照顾残疾老年人，（B）离开工作队伍并继续提供照顾，以及（c）停止提供照顾并继续工作。

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.