Work and personal life boundary management: Boundary strength, work/personal life balance, and the segmentation-integration continuum.

While researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the boundaries surrounding the work and personal life domains, few have tested the propositions set forth by theory. Boundary theory proposes that individuals manage the boundaries between work and personal life through processes of segmenting and/or integrating the domains. The authors investigated boundary management profiles of 332 workers in an investigation of the segmentation-integration continuum. Cluster analysis indicated consistent clusters of boundary management practices related to varying segmentation and integration of the work and personal life domains. But, the authors suggest that the segmentation-integration continuum may be more complicated. Results also indicated relationships between boundary management practices and work-personal life interference and work-personal life enhancement. Less flexible and more permeable boundaries were related to more interference, while more flexible and more permeable boundaries were related to more enhancement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

家庭背景与女性高等教育入学机会

实证研究表明,家长的文化程度、家庭经济状况、家长的职业以及家庭氛围等因素不仅影响女性能否接受高等教育,而且造成学校类型、层次以及专业选择等方面的差异。其中,家长的文化程度是最根本的因素。     

The relationship among work-family conflict and enhancement, organizational work-family culture, and work outcomes for older working women.

This article examines the relationship among work-family conflict and enhancement, organizational work-family culture, and four work outcomes for 489 working women over the age of 50. Survey results from two U.S. health care organizations and one U.S. financial services organization indicate that older working women experience differing amounts of work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict, work-to-family enhancement, and family-to-work enhancement. Hypotheses relating organizational work-family culture to work-family conflict and enhancement were partially supported, and hypotheses relating conflict and enhancement to four work outcomes were partially supported. Work-to-family conflict and work-to-family enhancement partially mediate the relationship between organizational work-family culture and selected work outcomes. Implications for theory and practice, limitations of this study, and directions for future research are also presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Families of handicapped persons: Research, programs, and policy issues.

Reviews the book, Families of handicapped persons: Research, programs, and policy issues by James J. Gallagher and Peter M. Vietze (1986). This edited volume consists of a collection of papers presented at the Conference on Families with Mentally Retarded Children sponsored by the Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The purpose of the conference was to stimulate leaders in the field to both review current trends and project future research directions regarding issues relevant to families having members with mental retardation. The main text of the book is composed of sixteen chapters covering a variety of topics, such as the development of typologies for classifying families, adaptation to stress, the impact of the family life cycle on family adaptation, the role of the father in the family, sibling relationships, mentally retarded parents, behavioral parent training, and social policy issues. A major strength of the book is that a number of the authors advocated four perspectives that reflect a positive shift in philosophical approaches to the study of families having a child with mental retardation. The present reviewer found Wickler's chapter applying Hill's ABCX Stress Model to the study of family adaptation to be the most useful presentation among those advocating a systems/transactional approach to research on families having a disabled member. Unlike Wickler, other chapters focusing on family systems/stress issues tended to present vague connections between popular theoretical approaches (e.g., family systems theories, stress theories, Samaroff s transactional model) and the needs of families having a member with mental retardation (although Farren, Metzger, & Sparling is an exception here). In summary, this book presents some interesting ideas regarding areas that should be investigated by further research. Selected chapters within the book are very well conceptualized and clearly written. Although the remaining chapters present interesting ideas, they tend to be repetitive and somewhat vague with respect to specific research suggestions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Traumatic head injury: A challenge to rehabilitation psychologists.

Traumatic head injury is a tragedy for all whom it affects. Many families of injured individuals report that the most painful aspects of the injury are the lack of accurate information available to them at all points following the injury and the fact that, because a head injury's effects are so different from those of other illnesses and injuries, no one seems to understand. It is hoped that this Special Issue of Rehabilitation Psychology will not only help more people to understand, but will also impel some readers to participate in the search for answers. In pulling these papers together, I struggled with the question of whether to include papers from the wide spectrum of rehabilitation efforts in which psychologists are involved (including neuropsychological assessment, cognitive retraining, vocational rehabilitation, etc.), or to focus on one major area. Given the increasing number of books that provide the broader perspective, I have chosen the latter route, including papers dealing with the psychosocial issue that is a prerequisite for success in other areas—how patients and their families come to terms with the injury and its consequences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Cancer and Their Families: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), particularly intrusive thoughts, avoidance, and arousal, are among the most common psychological aftereffects of childhood cancer for survivors and their mothers and fathers. We conducted a randomized wait-list control trial of a newly developed 4-session, 1-day intervention aimed at reducing PTSS that integrates cognitive-behavioral and family therapy approaches-the Surviving Cancer Competently Intervention Program (SCCIP). Participants were 150 adolescent survivors and their mothers, fathers, and adolescent siblings. Significant reductions in intrusive thoughts among fathers and in arousal among survivors were found in the treatment group. A multiple imputations approach was used to address nonrandom missing data and indicated that treatment effects would likely have been stronger had more distressed families been retained. The data are supportive of brief interventions to reduce PTSS in this population and provide additional support for the importance of intervention for multiple members of the family. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

邓小平小康思想的辩证统一观

小康思想是邓小平理论的重要组成部分,在概念上实现了定量分析和定性分析的完美结合,提出了民族化和国际化相结合的评价尺度,物质文明和精神文明协调发展的系统目标,手段和目标相统一的基本措施,速度和效益相统一的战略方针,以及国内和国际相辅相成的实现条件。     

Review of Finishing well: Aging and reparation in the intergenerational family.

Reviews the book, Finishing well: Aging and reparation in the intergenerational family by Terry D. Hargrave and William T. Anderson (see record 1992-98532-000). The purpose of this book is to help older people and their families complete life in a more satisfactory way through contextual family therapy. The essence of the contextual approach is to resolve family relationships by building trust and commitment in the family through redressing the imbalance of entitlements and obligations within the family. In this review, the dynamics of family relationships are described and the stages of family therapy as detailed in the book are summarized. In the book, the authors focus on the importance of forgiveness and describe the technique by which they promote forgiveness between family members. According to the reviewer, the book is well written because the therapeutic techniques are clearly illustrated with examples from therapy cases. This book can be enthusiastically recommended to all therapists engaged in therapy with older people, and to those doing family therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Children and the law.

Reviews the book, Children and the law by Jeffrey Wilson and Mary Tomlinson (1986). This book is divided into nine chapters focusing on almost all aspects of law that affect children including: custody and access issues, child protection and adoption, family support, property and civil participation, the child in the courtroom, crime and the child, children in education, and the child as an immigrant. The book Children and the Law is indispensible for both lawyers involved with children before the court as well as mental health professionals working with children. I know of no other accounts that are available that delve into the specifics related to legislation that are as highly readable and thorough as this account provided by Wilson and Tomlinson. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Treating stress in families.

Reviews the book, Treating stress in families edited by Charles R. Figley (see record 1989-97469-000). This book builds upon the work of two earlier books in the Psychosocial Stress Series, Stress and the Family, Volumes 1 & 2, both edited by Charles Figley. In the previous volumes attention was focused on ways in which families try to manage the stress of normative transitions (Volume 1) and catastrophes (Volume 2). In the present volume the editor has organized the book around the general theme of therapeutic intervention with families undergoing extraordinary stress. Specific theoretical viewpoints and timely presenting problems are discussed in depth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)