The Effectiveness of Occupational Development based on Super’s Growth Theory on Reducing Students Work-Family Conflicts and Job Burnout

• Main Authors: Ahad Ahangar Anzabi, Mahdi Zarea Bahram Abadi, Abdollah Shafia Abadi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2016-05-01
• Series: آموزش و ارزشیابی
• Subjects: occupational development; job burnout; work-family conflict; super’s growth theory
• Online Access: http://jinev.iaut.ac.ir/article_523053_a485c31d8cc8fd73e22a3ddc6c189853.pdf

This research was an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of occupational development on reducing reciprocal work-family conflict and job burnout based on Super’s growth theory among working and married postgraduate students at Islamic Azad University of Shabestar. This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study inclouded all working married students, from among whom 60 were selected through convinence sampling, who were then randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups, each with 30 students. The instruments used included Carlson's work-family conflict questionner and Massac's Burnout Inventory. The results showed that occupational development program was effective in reducing emotional atrophy and enhancing personal performance but did not show any significant effect on reducing depersonalization. Regarding work-family conflict, the treatment was helpful in reducing conflicts based on time and power exhaustion, but did not show any significant effect on reducing conflicts based on behavior. Moreover, regarding work-family conflicts, it showed significant effect on conflicts not only based on time, but also based on behavior and power exhaustion. Finally, comparing different effects of occupational develop program on male and female students, the researchers found that there was no significant difference in reducing emotional atrophy, depersonalization and enhancing personal performance. As regards work-family conflict, no significant difference was observed in reducing time-based, behavior-based, and power- exhaustion based conflicts among men and women. Thus, it was concluded that work-family conflicts and job burnout are among the major familial and organizational problems. Therefore empowerment such as occupational development programs are required more than ever.