TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so: Informational support and cognitive appraisal of the work‐family interface
JO  - Journal of occupational and organizational psychology
A1  - Steenbergen, Elianne F.
A1  - Ellemers, Naomi
A1  - Haslam, S. Alexander
A1  - Urlings, Femke
SP  - 349
EP  - 367
VL  - 81
IS  - 3
N2  - This paper examines whether cognitive appraisals regarding work-family role combination can be influenced by providing informational support. We conducted an experiment among female employees with young children working in a financial services organization (N=149). Participants received information communicating either a scarcity or an expansion perspective on human energy, prior to completing a survey. In support of our predictions, results showed that employees appraised the task of combining their work and family roles more positively after exposure to an expansion rather than a scarcity message. This research offers new theoretical insights into the role of cognitive appraisal in work-family research and offers scope for designing intervention programs that help employees to view role-combining more positively.<p /> 
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SN  - 0963-1798
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/096317908X312669
ID  - ref1
ER  -