Date of Award

8-2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Psychology

Committee Chair/Advisor

Robert R. Sinclair

Committee Member

Patrick J. Rosopa

Committee Member

Mary Anne Taylor

Committee Member

Kristin L. Scott

Abstract

Despite decades of progress spurred by the Decent Work Agenda (International Labor Organization, 1999), efforts to improve working conditions, ensure fair wages, and establish health and well-being as fundamental standards in employment practices continue to be sorely needed. The burden of inadequate decent work has demonstrated profound effects on individual health and well-being. However, the effects of inadequate decent work are rarely investigated over long periods of time and are entirely unexplored in relation to effects on children as they age and enter the workforce themselves. Accordingly, this dissertation investigated the intergenerational effects of decent work, extending beyond the immediate occupational health and well-being of the worker to the trajectory of their children's lives well into the future. Most notably, using serial mediation, I found support for the indirect relationship between parents' experiences of decent work and children’s experience of decent work through both educational and economic circumstances. Furthermore, I found that this relationship ultimately influences psychological well-being. This dissertation contributes to a growing body of scholarship that serves to bridge the gap between IO psychology and other disciplines (e.g., sociology, social psychology, developmental psychology) which focus more heavily on intergenerational relationships but much less so on work.

Author ORCID Identifier

0000-0003-2166-5151

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