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Job stress, wellbeing, work-life balance and work-life conflict among Australian academics

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posted on 2024-07-09, 21:28 authored by Amanda S. Bell, Diana RajendranDiana Rajendran, Stephen Theiler
Escalating stress and pressures, along with organisational change in universities has led to the increased importance of research in to the impact of perceived job stress, work-life balance and work-life conflict amongst academics. Yet, very few studies have examined academics' ability to balance work and personal life, and overcome work-life conflict. Drawing on Spillover theory (Zedeck, 1992), our study hypothesised that high levels of perceived job pressure stress and job threat stress would predict increased levels of work-life conflict, and decreased levels of work-life balance. Due to the well-documented relationship between stress and health, the influence of job stress on wellbeing was also investigated in this sample of academics (N =139). Perceived job stress (threat and pressure-type stressors) was associated with poorer work-life balance, and increased conflict between academics' work and personal lives. Perceived job threat-type stress made a stronger contribution and was a significant predictor of work-life balance and work-life conflict scores, than perceived job pressure-type stress. Perceived job threat-type stress among academics was also a significant predictor and associated with poorer wellbeing and increased ill-being, but perceived job pressure-type stress was not related to academics' wellbeing or ill-being.

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1832-7931

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E-Journal of Applied Psychology

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8

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1

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12 pp

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Swinburne University of Technology

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Copyright © 2011 The authors. This an Open Access article distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Australia Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/). The published version is reproduced in accordance with this policy.

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