Highlights
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- Irritability, anger, and social withdrawal are common responses to job stress.
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- Effects vary depending on gender and individual and family characteristics.
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- Short-term processes may accumulate creating stable family dynamics.
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- Some responses may protect the family from direct displays of stress.
In
the short-term, daily job stressors influence family interactions
through their impact on the employed person's mood, thoughts, and coping
behaviors. In the long-term, family relationships can be shaped by
those experiences in both positive and negative ways. Some spouse
‘cross-over’ effects appear to represent accommodations of the employed
partner under stress — for instance, a spouse's increased provision of
social support and involvement with children — and are evidence of
dynamics that go beyond a simple and direct transfer of stress from work
to home.
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