Abstract

Female physicians live and work in a very complex world fraught with professional demands and personal challenges. Twenty-seven married female physicians were interviewed for this study to assess demands and stressors endemic to them and to determine how they manage them. The breadth of this study looked at the demands and stressors of the female physician from the perspective of her work environment, home and family responsibilities, parenting responsibilities, and self-imposed demands in her perceived roles as a working wife and mother. Two main categories emerged during the development of grounded theory: System Challenge and System Adaptation. Additionally, work demands, home demands, child care demands, self imposed demands, reaching out and reaching in, emerged as subcategories. This present study has implications for theory, future research, family policy, work-family planning and execution, as well as employee incentives for married female physicians’ lives.

LLU Discipline

Family Studies

School

Graduate Studies

First Advisor

Curtis A. Fox

Second Advisor

Naomi N. Modeste

Third Advisor

Cheryl Simpson

Fourth Advisor

Colwick M. Wilson

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Degree Level

Ph.D.

Year Degree Awarded

2010

Date (Title Page)

6-2010

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Physicians, Women -- psychology; Stress, Psychological; Burnout, Professional; Adaptation, Psychological; Family -- psychology; Evaluation Studies.

Type

Dissertation

Page Count

xii; 148

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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