Can organizational resources improve well-being for employed caregivers of children with disabilities?
| dc.contributor.advisor | Oswald, Frederick L | |
| dc.creator | Wu, Felix Y | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-21T21:37:22Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2024-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-04-12 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-05-21T21:37:22Z | |
| dc.description | EMBARGO NOTE: This item is embargoed until 2026-05-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Across the United States, an estimated 32.6 million employees in 2020 have informal caregiving responsibilities for those with health conditions. For such employees, they manage not only the demands from their job, but also the demands that come with caregiving, often resulting in burnout, as well as other deleterious mental and physical health conditions. However, as suggested by the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R model; Demerouti et al., 2001), caregiving employees may also have resources that buffer these negative health effects, such as social support at home, and flexible time arrangements in the workplace. To better understand the underlying processes, the current study examines 327 employees: 89 of whom are also caregivers for children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD; a neuromuscular disease), and 238 are parents of children without disabilities, as a comparison group. Specifically, the study uses the JD-R model to integrate the demands and resources found in both the employment and caregiving roles and settings. My study generally did find support for demands leading to greater burnout. Yet, the impact of resources was relatively mixed, where many workplace policies did not reduce informal caregiving burnout and a rare few actually increased informal caregiving burnout. Furthermore, I did not find evidence of any resources (for the job or informal caregiving) acting as buffers for work-related and informal caregiving burnout. These results suggest that the resources received by the informal caregivers is largely inadequate, and that organizations and government should devote more effort in designing more effective and accessible work and informal caregiving resources to support working informal caregivers. | |
| dc.embargo.lift | 2026-05-01 | |
| dc.embargo.terms | 2026-05-01 | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wu, Felix. Can organizational resources improve well-being for employed caregivers of children with disabilities? (2024). PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116120 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116120 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | |
| dc.subject | Informal caregiving | |
| dc.subject | Job-demands resources model | |
| dc.title | Can organizational resources improve well-being for employed caregivers of children with disabilities? | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | Text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Social Sciences | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |