When Daily Challenges Become Too Much During COVID-19: Implications of Family and Work Demands for Work–Life Balance Among Parents of Children With Special Needs

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dc.contributor.authorCalderwood, Charlesen
dc.contributor.authorBreaux, Rosannaen
dc.contributor.authorten Brummelhuis, Lieke L.en
dc.contributor.authorMitropoulos, Tanyaen
dc.contributor.authorSwanson, Courtney S.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-17T15:07:57Zen
dc.date.available2022-11-17T15:07:57Zen
dc.date.issued2022-01-01en
dc.date.updated2022-11-17T14:00:22Zen
dc.description.abstractWorking parents of children with special needs (i.e., emotional, behavioral, and/or learning difficulties) face recurrent stressors that can make balancing work and family demands difficult. This strain has been magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, as these parents often need to take on greater responsibility in supporting their children’s remote learning, while still meeting their own job-related responsibilities. Accordingly, working parents of special needs children may be particularly vulnerable to adverse outcomes stemming from pandemic-induced changes to work (e.g., teleworking) and education (e.g., remote instruction). We sought to understand how daily family and work challenges influence satisfaction with work–life balance (WLB) in this priority population, with an emphasis on contextualizing this process through chronic job stress perceptions. Conducting a 10-day daily diary study in a sample of 47 working parents of special needs children during fall 2020, we observed family challenges to deplete positive affect from day-to-day, which undermined satisfaction with work–life balance. Furthermore, detrimental influences of daily family and work challenges on positive affect were magnified under chronic job stress, yielding diminished WLB satisfaction for more chronically stressed employees. We discuss how these findings can be harnessed to support particularly vulnerable employees during the COVID-19 pandemic and other chronic stress circumstances, while also drawing attention to how the pandemic may be exacerbating work–life inequities that some employees face.en
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dc.format.extentPages 516-527en
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dc.identifier.citationCalderwood, C., Breaux, R., ten Brummelhuis, L. L., Mitropoulos, T., & Swanson, C. S. (2022). When daily challenges become too much during COVID-19: Implications of family and work demands for work–life balance among parents of children with special needs.Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 27(5), 516–527. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000333en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000333en
dc.identifier.eissn1939-1307en
dc.identifier.issn1076-8998en
dc.identifier.issue5en
dc.identifier.orcidCalderwood, Charles [0000-0001-6209-6421]en
dc.identifier.orcidBoljonis, Rosanna [0000-0001-5500-6950]en
dc.identifier.other2022-85645-001 (PII)en
dc.identifier.pmid35901404en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/112662en
dc.identifier.volume27en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35901404en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject7 Management of diseases and conditionsen
dc.subject7.1 Individual care needsen
dc.subject.meshHumansen
dc.subject.meshParentsen
dc.subject.meshChilden
dc.subject.meshDisabled Childrenen
dc.subject.meshPandemicsen
dc.subject.meshWork-Life Balanceen
dc.subject.meshOccupational Stressen
dc.subject.meshCOVID-19en
dc.titleWhen Daily Challenges Become Too Much During COVID-19: Implications of Family and Work Demands for Work–Life Balance Among Parents of Children With Special Needsen
dc.title.serialJournal of Occupational Health Psychologyen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherJournal Articleen
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