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- Title
Pursuing Multiple Callings: The Implications of Balancing Career and Motherhood for Women and the Church.
- Authors
Oates, Kerris L. M.; Hall, M. Elizabeth Lewis; Anderson, Tamara L.; Willingham, Michele M.
- Abstract
Investigators have uncovered several benefits of assuming the multiple roles of career and motherhood. Despite many positive outcomes, additional studies have demonstrated potential for negative outcomes. Mediators and moderators of employed mothers' experiences include work-family fit, womanhood ideologies, role quality, and spousal support. Spirituality, through viewing one's roles as callings, has also been suggested as a potential mediator/moderator. With many Christian mothers pursuing careers they perceive as spiritual callings, the church can play an important role in helping women embrace their callings and reap benefits in the form of well-being. Church communities that acknowledge the possibility of multiple callings for women, ask for input from female congregants, and actively implement expressions of support are proposed as potential ways to help.
- Subjects
MOTHERHOOD; MEDIATORS (Persons); IDEOLOGY; FAMILY relations; SPIRITUAL life; VOCATION; SPIRITUAL well-being; CAREER development; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Journal of Psychology & Christianity, 2008, Vol 27, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
0733-4273
- Publication type
Article