Model of School, Work and Family Facilitation in a Chinese Context

Abstract

In the new millennium, social trends such as increasing participation of women in the work force (Lerner, 1994), greater numbers of dual earner families (Bumpass, 1990) and an increasing number of employed college students (Fox, Connolly, & Snyder, 2005) are creating new responsibilities and new challenges to individuals who play the roles of employees, students and family members (Grzywacz & Marks, 2000). Thus, the importance of studying the interdependence of the work, school and family domains is merited. Most studies on this topic have been conducted in Western counties from a Western perspective (Luk & Shaffer, 2005). The purpose of this study was to examine school, work and family facilitation within the context of China, from an Eastern perspective.