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Being Mindful of Work–Family Issues: Intervention to a Modern Stressor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2015

Valerie J. Morganson ,
Michael A. Rotch  and
Ashley R. Christie
Valerie J. Morganson*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of West Florida
Michael A. Rotch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of West Florida
Ashley R. Christie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of West Florida
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Valerie J. Morganson, Department of Psychology, University of West Florida, 11000 University Parkway, Pensacola, FL 32514. E-mail: vmorganson@uwf.edu
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Recently, mindfulness research has grown quickly, particularly as an avenue to increase productivity and alleviate modern workers' growing stress levels (Hyland, Lee, & Mills, 2015). In a parallel but largely separate literature, work–family1 conflict has received expansive research attention in the last several decades as an important modern stressor. Work–family researchers have repeatedly called for practical interventions and individual strategies such as coping (e.g., Eby, Casper, Lockwood, Bordeaux, & Brinley, 2005; Kossek, Baltes, & Matthews, 2011). As a potential remedy for modern stress with demonstrated utility in the workplace, mindfulness is ideally suited to facilitate workers' efforts to balance their work and personal life domains. The purpose of this commentary is to explore numerous ways through which bridging mindfulness and work–family literatures will advance organizational science and practice.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 682 - 689
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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