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1 - Life Balance

Setting the Stage and Understanding the Language

from Part I - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

M. Joseph Sirgy
M. Joseph Sirgy
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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The chapter covers the history of the work-life balance movement – how industrialization and division of labor along gender lines reinforced segregation between work life and family life. To set the stage to understand the psychology of life balance, the chapter also introduces basic concepts of wellbeing.

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work-life balance movementwork and nonwork lifecommunal livingpreindustrial perioddivision of laboradoption of technologydomain satisfactionbottom-up spilloverlife satisfactionrole theorysatisfaction hiererachy
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The Balanced Life
Using Strategies from Behavioral Science to Enhance Wellbeing
 , pp. 5 - 16
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Life Balance
  • M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Book: The Balanced Life
  • Online publication: 21 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128544.002
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  • Life Balance
  • M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Book: The Balanced Life
  • Online publication: 21 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128544.002
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  • Life Balance
  • M. Joseph Sirgy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Book: The Balanced Life
  • Online publication: 21 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128544.002
Available formats
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