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Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Moderate Associations between Work Stress and Exhaustion: Testing the Job Demands–Resources Model in Academic Staff at an Austrian Medical University
Originally published 2022-05-09 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph19095769 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about academic workload discussions that include family responsibilities; the original evidence concerns 133 academic employees at an Austrian medical university.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Does support fit the pressures of employees who are raising children?
This reading brings family-supportive supervision as a possible resource under academic work stress into the trust pathway. The cross-sectional academic employee survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
133 academic employees at an Austrian medical university
Age / stage: Adults, mean age 41.9; subgroup with children under 18
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess supervisor support, work stress and exhaustion?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about differences associated with having a child under 18?
- What would need to be checked before adopting academic workload discussions that include family responsibilities?
Keep the limits in view
A small single-university self-report sample cannot establish support effects; publication counts and H-index are limited career measures.
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Nikola Komlenac; Lisa Stockinger; Margarethe Hochleitner (2022). Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Moderate Associations between Work Stress and Exhaustion: Testing the Job Demands–Resources Model in Academic Staff at an Austrian Medical University International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095769
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