Indicators and models of family and work roles harmonization

The topic of this project will be the study of relations between work and family roles, models for their harmonization, identification of indicators of degree and model of harmonization of these roles and also construction, adaptation and validation of instruments for their measurement. Relations of work and family roles will be conceptualised as dynamical, susceptible to change caused by factors that are determined by properties of work and family, the wider social and cultural context, and psychological properties of the individual. Special emphasis will be placed on the relations between work and family in transitional situations (transition between school and work, unemployment and employment, founding a family) and their relations to prior development phases. Research activities in this project will be conducted on samples from Serbia and will have three phases–phase in which existing diversity in family and work environments/systems will be explored, the measurement instrument construction phase and the phase of examining and testing models of work-family relations in general and in special situations and on special groups. Wherever it is possible the results will be compared to the results obtained in other countries, especially the countries of the SEE region. This project follows up on the results of Ministry of Science and technological development current project 149062 – Harmonization of work and family roles, as well as on the results of the EU Famwork project.