Title:
Lawyers' work-life balance: the relation between personality, boundary management strategy, and emotional well being
Author:
Kei Takahashi
Thesis Advisor:
Heather Z. Lyons
Committee Member:
Beth A. Kotchick
Committee Member:
Matthew W. Kirkhart
Committee Member:
James Buckley
Committee Member:
Andrea Giampetro-Meyer
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2010
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
Boundary management theorists have agreed that both internal and external factors influence one's boundary management strategy, but little emphasis has been placed on examining internal predictors. Further, there is mixed evidence of whether an integrative or segmenting boundary management strategy is better for preventing distress caused from work-non-work conflict. In midsized and large law firms, where the demand for productivity is high, lawyers are exhibiting higher levels of distress than the general population. Therefore, through examining lawyers in midsized and large law firms, the present study sought to understand which factors of personality may be antecedents to flexibility-willingness (i.e., an aspect of boundary management strategy). Findings showed that attorneys who were curious, nonconventional, and more likely to try new things tended to be more willing to create a loose boundary around work that allowed material to flow into their work space. In contrast, attorneys who were more anxious and vulnerable to stress tended to be less willing to loosen boundaries, which kept the work environment free of non-work material. The second purpose of the present study was to see whether boundary permeability was related to distress. Attorneys were more depressed if they reported more work material at home than less. The third purpose was to examine if boundary flexibility-willingness moderated the relation between boundary permeability and distress. The amount of distress experienced from finding work material at home was not affected by one's willingness to allow work to enter the home environment.
Subject:
Work and family--Psychological aspects
Subject:
Lawyers--Work--Psychological aspects
Subject:
Corporate culture
Subject:
Quality of work life
Subject:
Revised Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Five Factor Inventory
Degree:
Doctor of Clincal Psychology
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
TakahashiK-10
