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Balancing the Responsibilities of Work and Family Life

Results of the Family Caregiver Survey

Eileen M. Brennan, PhD, is an associate dean and a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, Portland State University, in Portland, Oregon. She is principal investigator for the Support for Working Families Project of the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health. As part of her studies of the ways in which family caregivers of children with serious emotional disorders balance their work and family responsibilities, she also serves as co-principal investigator for a pilot project on work and family balance supported through the Center for the Study of Mental Health Policy and Services. Address: Eileen M. Brennan, Graduate School of Social Work, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207–0751.

John Poertner, DSW

John Poertner, DSW, is a professor and an associate dean at the School of Social Work of the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. His research interests focus on children and families in public child welfare and mental health systems. He is currently in charge of outcome reporting for the Children and Family Research Center, a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

This article describes patterns of work and family balance that were examined for employed parents who give family care to children with serious emotional disorders. A secondary analysis of data from the Family Caregiver Survey was performed for a subsample of 184 caregivers employed outside the home or having a partner employed full time. Families having different work structures (patterns of part- or full-time employment and of parenting arrangements) reported significantly different levels of job stress, pleasure in work and intimate relationships, work used as coping, and satisfaction handling home responsibilities. Although reported child behaviors were significantly related to stress attributed to children and family, the behaviors were not related to work structure, job stress, or support service use.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 5, No. 4, 239-249 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669700500407


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