Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

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2007, Volume13

Issue 4

109 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v13.i4

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Catherine T. Amelink
Division of Student Affairs, Virginia Tech University, 110 Burruss Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Elizabeth G. Creamer
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Tech University, 110 Burruss Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Two hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to analyze questionnaire data gathered from married or partnered, tenured and tenure-track faculty at a research university to identify personal, institutional, and nonwork factors that explain perceptions about work-life spillover and, secondly, the relationship of spillover, personal, institutional, and nonwork factors to overall job satisfaction. A combination of personal and environmental climate variables explained 48% of the variance in work-life spillover and 60% of the variance in job satisfaction. A direct, positive relationship was found between work-life spillover and job satisfaction. Findings challenge conceptions of work-life spillover as a negative dimension of faculty life.

DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v13.i4.10 Download article, 317-332 pages

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