serval:BIB_7DC0F94BCC37
The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being : Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday Life
10.5539/ijps.v7n3p157
del Rio Carral
M.
author
article
2015-08
International Journal of Psychological Studies
1918-7211
1918-722X
journal
7
3
157-175
Work-life issues have become a major concern across Western societies with the objective to promote women's careers and well-being. However, despite growing attempts to increase the number of women in senior management positions in European countries, such as Switzerland, they remain highly underrepresented. Inspired from the cultural approach in psychology, this article focuses on these women's concrete everyday life to understand how they articulate different life domains and how this influences their subjective well-being. A narrative approach based on reflexivity is adopted to analyze women's activity. Results show meaning intertwinements between life priorities that are often conflicting. Two psychological functions are identified: the feeling of control and the letting go of control. Each of these contributes to women's subjective well-being through the use of diversified supports, but their structuring roles appear only in relation to one another. Results are discussed in the light of existing literature and of their implications.
critical psychology
female senior managers
subjective well-being
work-life balance
work-life conflict
eng
60_published
true
peer-reviewed
University of Lausanne
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