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The Impact of Neighborhood Composition on Work-Family Conflict and Distress

Abstract

Theories of work-family conflict (WFC) and health remain limited because they emphasize individual-level antecedents to the exclusion of broader contexts, such as residential neighborhoods. We address this issue by focusing on the impact of neighborhood social composition on WFC. Among couples with children we assess whether socially similar neighbors relative to oneself reduce perceptions and mental health consequences of WFC, and whether …

Authors

Young M; Wheaton B

Journal

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 481–497

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

December 2013

DOI

10.1177/0022146513504761

ISSN

0022-1465