A Life Beyond Work? Job Demands, Work-Life Balance, and Wellbeing in UK Academics

By G. Kinman, F. Jones. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Work stressors, health and sense of coherence in UK academic employees (2008, background): “Previous research suggests that academic employees might have particular problems maintaining an acceptable work–life balance (Doyle & Hind, 1998; Kinman & Jones, 2008).”
Work Life Balance: A Conceptual Review (2018, background): “Over the past few decades, substantial research has demonstrated that anxiety related job stress has a negative effect on wellbeing amongst academia [5, 28, 51].”
Workaholism and work–family conflict among university academics (2018, unknown): “This is comparable with the results from a study in the UK (Kinman and Jones 2008) showing better balance between job and family life among university academics scoring high on control, schedule flexibility and employer support, but these resources did not moderate the negative relationships between”
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, background): “Organization behavior scholars, for instance, are keen to explore topics such as work-life balance (Beauregard & Henry, 2009; Sturges & Guest, 2004) or job and work design (Parker, 2014), which can be essential to one’s well-being (Haar, Russo, Suñe, & Ollier-Malaterre, 2014; Kinman & Jones, 2008).”
Academics job satisfaction and job stress across countries in the changing academic environments (2014, background): “Academic work environments have deteriorated since the 1980s (e.g., Harman 2001; Kinman and Jones 2008; Houston et al. 2006; Tytherleigh et al. 2005).”
Job stress, wellbeing, work-life balance and work-life conflict among Australian academics (2012, background): “Academics in the UK who testified to more work-life conflict tended to be less healthy, less satisfied with their jobs, and more likely to have seriously considered leaving academia (Kinman & Jones, 2008).”
Student mental health and transitions into, through and out of university: student and staff perspectives (2021, background): “Placing the responsibility of supporting student mental health on academic staff also poses a substantial risk to these individuals’ own mental health (Hughes et al. 2018; Kinman and Jones 2008).”
Factors that influence PhD candidates’ success: the importance of PhD project characteristics (2019, background): “High workloads are a common and persistent problem in academia, even to the point where working overtime is normal (Kinman and Jones 2008).”