Center for Healthy Aging and Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Geriatric Mental Health Services, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
Gerontologist. 2018 Jul 13;58(4):674-685. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnx016.
This study examined how women who combine long-term care employment with unpaid, informal caregiving roles for children (double-duty-child caregivers), older adults (double-duty-elder caregivers), and both children and older adults (triple-duty caregivers) differed from their workplace-only caregiving counterparts on workplace factors related to job retention (i.e., job satisfaction and turnover intentions) and performance (i.e., perceived obligation to work while sick and emotional exhaustion). The moderating effects of perceived spouse support were also examined.
Regression analyses were conducted on survey data from 546 married, heterosexual women employed in U.S.-based nursing homes.
Compared to workplace-only caregivers, double-duty-elder and triple-duty caregivers reported more emotional exhaustion. Double-duty-child caregivers reported lower turnover intentions and both double-and-triple-duty caregivers felt less obligated to work while sick when perceiving greater support from husbands.
Results indicate that double-and-triple-duty caregiving women's job retention and obligation to work while sick may depend on perceived spouse support, highlighting the important role husbands play in their wives' professional lives. Findings also lend support to the emerging literature on marriage-to-work positive spillover, and suggest that long-term care organizations should target marital relationships in family-friendly initiatives to retain and engage double-and-triple-duty caregiving employees.
本研究考察了同时从事长期护理工作和为儿童（双重责任-儿童照顾者）、老年人（双重责任-老年照顾者）以及儿童和老年人（三重责任照顾者）提供无偿非正规照料角色的女性与仅在工作场所提供照料的女性在与工作保留（即工作满意度和离职意向）和绩效（即生病时工作的感知义务和情绪疲惫）相关的工作场所因素方面的差异。还研究了感知配偶支持的调节作用。
对美国养老院 546 名已婚异性恋女性的调查数据进行了回归分析。
与仅在工作场所提供照料的女性相比，双重责任-老年照顾者和三重责任照顾者报告的情绪疲惫感更强。双责任-儿童照顾者的离职意向较低，而当感知到丈夫的支持更大时，双重和三重责任照顾者在生病时工作的义务感较低。
结果表明，双重和三重责任照顾女性的工作保留和生病时工作的义务可能取决于感知到的配偶支持，这突显了丈夫在妻子职业生活中的重要作用。研究结果还支持婚姻对工作的积极溢出的新兴文献，并表明长期护理组织应在家庭友好型举措中针对婚姻关系，以留住和吸引双重和三重责任照顾员工。
