Eldercare Demands, Strain, and Work Engagement: The Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Support

Autor/inn/en	Zacher, Hannes; Winter, Gabriele
Titel	Eldercare Demands, Strain, and Work Engagement: The Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Support
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79 (2011) 3, S.667-680 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2011.03.020
Schlagwörter	Employees; Caregivers; Older Adults; Employee Attitudes; Work Attitudes; Work Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Älterer Erwachsener; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	Demographic changes give rise to an increasing number of middle-aged employees providing home-based care to an elderly family member. However, the potentially important role of employees' perceptions of organizational support for eldercare has so far not been investigated. The goal of this study was to examine a stressor-strain-outcome model (Koeske & Koeske, 1993) of eldercare strain as a mediator of the relationship between eldercare demands and caregivers' work engagement. Perceived organizational eldercare support was expected to attenuate the positive relationship between eldercare demands and eldercare strain and to buffer the negative relationship between eldercare strain and work engagement. Results of mediation and moderated mediation analyses with data collected from 147 employees providing eldercare supported the hypotheses. The findings suggest that perceived organizational eldercare support is especially beneficial for employees' work engagement when eldercare demands and strain are high. (Contains 3 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10