The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being: Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday Life

María del Río Carral

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2015, vol. 7, issue 3, 157

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2015
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