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Positive Psychological Micro-Interventions to Improve the Work–Family Interface: Use Your Resources and Count Your Blessings

Maria C W Peeters; Elianne F van Steenbergen; Jan Fekke Ybema

Originally published 2020-02-28 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00275 ↗

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Working-family evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

Relevant to decisions about a carefully evaluated resource-focused activity during working time; the original evidence concerns 218 working mothers receiving resource-use, gratitude or comparison conditions.

Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.

Editorial reading guide · Kindness

Which small practices help working mothers, and which promises need more evidence?

This reading brings contrasting resource-use and gratitude micro-interventions for combining work and family into the kindness pathway. The three-condition field experiment with three measurement waves offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.

Study context

218 working mothers receiving resource-use, gratitude or comparison conditions

Age / stage: Working mothers; children's ages not specified in the abstract

Read with three questions

  1. How did the researchers define and assess the resource-use and count-your-blessings exercises?
  2. What does the study design allow us to conclude about differences between the two interventions and exercise frequency?
  3. What would need to be checked before adopting a carefully evaluated resource-focused activity during working time?

Keep the limits in view

The gratitude exercise did not improve the work-family combination in this study; a field experiment in working mothers does not establish durable benefits for every workforce.

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Maria C W Peeters; Elianne F van Steenbergen; Jan Fekke Ybema (2020). Positive Psychological Micro-Interventions to Improve the Work–Family Interface: Use Your Resources and Count Your Blessings Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00275

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