The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being : Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday Life

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Title
The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being : Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday Life
Journal
International Journal of Psychological Studies
Author(s)
del Rio Carral M.
ISSN
1918-7211 (Print)
1918-722X (Online)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
08/2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
7
Number
3
Pages
157-175
Language
english
Abstract
Work-life issues have become a major concern across Western societies with the objective to promote women's careers and well-being. However, despite growing attempts to increase the number of women in senior management positions in European countries, such as Switzerland, they remain highly underrepresented. Inspired from the cultural approach in psychology, this article focuses on these women's concrete everyday life to understand how they articulate different life domains and how this influences their subjective well-being. A narrative approach based on reflexivity is adopted to analyze women's activity. Results show meaning intertwinements between life priorities that are often conflicting. Two psychological functions are identified: the feeling of control and the letting go of control. Each of these contributes to women's subjective well-being through the use of diversified supports, but their structuring roles appear only in relation to one another. Results are discussed in the light of existing literature and of their implications.
Keywords
critical psychology, female senior managers, subjective well-being, work-life balance, work-life conflict
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Yes
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