Work and Women's Well-Being: Religion and Age as Moderators

Religion has been found to moderate the stress-strain relationship. This moderator role, however, may be dependent on age. The present study tested for the threeway interaction between work experience, age, and religiosity in the prediction of women's well-being, and predicted that work experie...

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Published in:Journal of religion and health 2008-12, Vol.47 (4), p.476-490
Main Author: Noor, Noraini M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Aging
Clinical Psychology
Employment
Female
Humans
Internal-External Control
Islam
Islam - psychology
Job Satisfaction
Malaysia
Marriage - psychology
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental health
Middle Aged
On the Boundaries of Religion, Psychology and Medicines: Studies in the Social, Behavioral and Medical Science
Original Paper
Personal Satisfaction
Personality psychology
Psychology of religion
Public Health
Regression Analysis
Religion
Religiosity
Religious Studies
Social interaction
Social Perception
Social psychology
Spirituality
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Wellbeing
Women
Women's Health
Women, Working - psychology
Womens health
Workload - psychology
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Summary:Religion has been found to moderate the stress-strain relationship. This moderator role, however, may be dependent on age. The present study tested for the threeway interaction between work experience, age, and religiosity in the prediction of women's well-being, and predicted that work experience and religiosity will combine additively in older women, while in younger women religiosity is predicted to moderate the relationship between work experience and well-being. In a sample of 389 married Malay Muslim women, results of the regression analyses showed significant three-way interactions between work experience, age, and religiosity in the prediction of well-being (measured by distress symptoms and life satisfaction). While in younger women the results were in line with the predictions made, in the older women, both additive and moderator effects of religiosity were observed, depending on the well-being measures used. These results are discussed in relation to the literature on work and family, with specific reference to women's age, religion, as well as the issue of stress-strain specificity.
ISSN:0022-4197
1573-6571
DOI:10.1007/s10943-008-9188-8