ABSTRACT Transitioning from doctoral student to assistant professor involves many changes for junior faculty beginning tenure-track careers. Research, teaching, and service demands, on top of adjusting to a new home environment, create tremendous pressures on tenure-lined, junior faculty members to adapt and perform. By understanding influences of junior faculty work-life balance, departments can become more aware of the unique, individual needs to help make their junior faculty successful, both personally and professionally. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study utilizes surveys to junior faculty in all NASPAA-accredited, public affairs programs in the United States. Data are analyzed using structural equation modeling and demonstrates that workload, presence of work-life balance policies, and stress have a significant direct impact on work-life balance satisfaction of junior faculty. The findings from this research have significant implications for universities that want to “care for/tend to” and retain their junior faculty members, as junior faculty success impacts the prestige of the program, school, and university through their scholarly achievements, teaching contributions, and service activities.

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检查美国公共事务项目中初级教师的工作与生活平衡

摘要 从博士生到助理教授的过渡涉及到初级教师开始终身制职业的许多变化。研究、教学和服务需求，除了适应新的家庭环境外，还给终身任职的初级教员带来了适应和表现的巨大压力。通过了解初级教师工作与生活平衡的影响，部门可以更加了解独特的个人需求，以帮助他们的初级教师在个人和专业方面取​​得成功。本研究利用社会交换理论，对美国所有 NASPAA 认可的公共事务项目的初级教师进行调查。使用结构方程模型分析数据，并证明工作量、工作与生活平衡政策的存在、和压力对初级教师的工作与生活平衡满意度有显着的直接影响。这项研究的发现对于想要“关心/倾向于”并留住初级教员的大学具有重要意义，因为初级教员的成功通过他们的学术成就、教学贡献、和服务活动。