Book chapter
The Individual and the Couple Perspective: Everything Changes - Shifting Values and Priorities around Work and Family in the Couple Context
Work-Nonwork Management, pp.89-106
Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology Series, Taylor & Francis Group
2025
DOI: 10.4324/9781003500292-8
Abstract
Individuals and couples change over time in their work and family priorities, which affects how couples make decisions about these domains. The ways in which partners within couples prioritize work and family can affect the work and family decisions that couples choose to make, and these priorities often change over the life span. This chapter describes the multiple influences on work and family prioritization, such as work and family centrality, gender role traditionalism, partner expectations, and external forces. The chapter then demonstrates how change over time can affect this prioritization and the types of decisions that couples make and the process of decision-making about work and family issues. The chapter then provides a number of critical implications for researchers and organizations that focus on couple outcomes, or on the outcomes of individuals who are partnered within couples, to inspire future research and policy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Individual and the Couple Perspective: Everything Changes - Shifting Values and Priorities around Work and Family in the Couple Context
- Creators
- Beth A. Livingston
- Contributors
- Nina M. Junker (Editor)Maria Karanika-Murray (Editor)Cary L. Cooper (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Work-Nonwork Management, pp.89-106
- Series
- Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology Series
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003500292-8
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group; Oxford
- Alternative title
- Work-Nonwork Management
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9985091799102771
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