Deniz Yucel's research while affiliated with William Paterson University and other places

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Prior research has explored the consequences of the sudden transition to remote work during the pandemic. Less is known, however, about how the mental distress of individuals who changed work locations during the pandemic differed from that of those who consistently worked from home or consistently worked on-site, nor to what extent these differenc...
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Drawing on data from the 2008 U.S. National Study of the Changing Workforce, this study (1) examines the associations between access to three types of flexible working arrangements—flextime, flexplace, and culture of flexibility—and psychological distress, (2) tests the mediating roles of work–family conflict and work–family enrichment, and (3) inv...
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This study examines the underexplored relationship between union type and mental health for married, cohabiting, and living apart together (“LAT”) individuals. Further, we assess whether gender and age moderate (separately and jointly) this relationship. Using data from Wave 1 of the Generations and Gender Survey ( N = 34,833), results suggest that...
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Objective: This study tests the effects of work-family conflict, in both directions, on partners' agreement on fertility preferences among dual-earner couples, as well as whether this relationship varies by women's employment status. Background: Few studies have examined the relationship between work-family conflict and fertility preferences. Give...
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This study contributes to the existing literature by testing the longitudinal effects of both types of work–family conflict (i.e., work-to-family conflict [WTFC] and family-to-work conflict [FTWC]) on depressive symptoms, using data from three waves of the German Family Panel (pairfam) survey collected over a four-year period. Using responses from...
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Previous studies have shown that societal norms around gender roles can shape gender-based outcomes of working from home. This paper extends these findings to see how individuals’ gender role attitudes can moderate the relationship between working from home and work–family conflict, but again with varying outcomes for men and women. We use data fro...
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In post-conflict and segregated societies, overcoming high prejudice between groups is essential for peaceful coexistence. In this paper, we explore the roles of direct contact (face-to-face contact and cross-group friendship) and indirect contact (extended cross-group friendship) in reducing prejudice between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots li...
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Using 509 mother/father–child dyads drawn from Wave 8 of The German Family Panel (pairfam), this study examines the direct effects of mothers’ and fathers’ work–family conflict (WFC) on children’s internalizing (emotional) and externalizing (conduct) problem behaviors. We also test whether these effects are moderated by several child characteristic...
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The purpose of this paper is to test a typology of work–family balance and explore its effect on job satisfaction, as well as to test whether different sources of social support moderate this effect. The paper uses quantitative data on professionals and managers from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce Survey (N = 1120). Latent Class...
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This study examines dual-earner couples to determine whether changes in work–family conflict predict changes in one’s own (i.e., actor effects) or partner’s (i.e., partner effects) health and well-being as well as gender differences in these relationships. Using data from 1,001 dual-earner couples in Wave 6 and Wave 8 of the German Family Panel sur...
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One of the major challenges in divided societies is finding ways to overcome geographical partition by increasing readiness for cohabitation in mixed areas. Cyprus has faced a protracted situation of division (between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots) for the last 44 years. In this paper, we explore the role of intergroup contact (both quantity...
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The present study uses Wave 8 of the German Family Panel to test the spillover and crossover effects of work-family conflict on job satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and mental health for individuals (actor effects) as well as their spouses/partners (partner effects) in dual-earning couples. We further contribute by assessing whether the res...
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Previous scholarship has highlighted how work–family conflict (work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict) and job insecurity interfere with health outcomes. Little work, however, considers how these stressors jointly influence health among workers. Informed by the stress process model, the current study examines whether job insecurity mod...
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Using data on employees from the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW), this study tests the effects of work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict (WTFC and FTWC, respectively) on job satisfaction and work engagement. Moreover, using the job demands-resources (JDR) model, this study evaluates whether job autonomy and schedul...
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Using data from 501 married individuals living in Northern Cyprus, an understudied context, this study tests the effect of intimate partner violence (specifically, verbal and physical spousal aggression) on marital satisfaction. In particular, this study explores whether marital communication mediates the effects of verbal and physical spousal aggr...
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Several recent studies suggest that individuals exhibit better social skills if raised with siblings. This pattern has been demonstrated among kindergartners and adults, but oddly is inconsistent among adolescents. Analyzing 1662 youths from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we replicate what others have found—no as...
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This article sheds new light on the role played by perceived fairness in configuring the relationship between gendered housework division and women’s family life satisfaction across 30 countries. This is achieved by distinguishing and comparing two major dimensions of women’s fairness comparison—inter-gender relational comparison between partners a...
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Applying the stress-divorce model to explain the impact of spillover stress, this study analyzes 1,961 married participants in the National Study of the Changing Workforce. Specifically, it tests the individual and combined effects of work-to-family conflict, family-to-work conflict, work-to-family enrichment, and family-to-work enrichment on marit...
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Using data from the 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples survey, this study tests the correlates of relationship satisfaction among 752 married couples and 323 cohabiting couples, using the social exchange framework and the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). Specifically, it considers how conflict in work-family balance, fairness in the div...
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Workplace support has been consistently identified as an important factor shaping the well-being of workers. This study adds to the existing literature by considering how three central facets of workplace support—coworker support, supervisor support, and organizational support—relate to the life satisfaction of US workers. Additionally, we examine...
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Work-to-family conflict has been consistently found to be one of the factors impacting workers’ life satisfaction. Prior research has also highlighted how type of employment (self-employed versus employee) impacts life satisfaction. No prior research, however, has examined how type of employment moderates the association between work-to-family conf...
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This study analyzes 2,617 10–15 year olds surveyed in wave 1 of the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). Specifically, it tests the associations of three variables with life satisfaction among early adolescents: parent–child relationship quality, being a perpetrator or victim of sibling bullying, and being a perpetrator or victim of...
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Erratum to: Child Ind Res (2014)DOI 10.1007/s12187-014-9276-0The published article unfortunately contained errors in Tables 1 and 3. These tables are corrected as follows:
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This paper explores the correlates of attitudes toward marriage and children in North Cyprus, South Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, using the most recent wave of the European Values Study (EVS) data. The results show the most support for the second demographic transition theory. The combined effects of education, religiosity, political ideology and gend...
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This main aim of this paper is to evaluate the predictors of marital instability among married individuals living in Northern Cyprus, by focusing on socio-economic, attitudinal, psychological, and relationship-specific factors. To fulfill this goal, the study analyzes survey data from 496 married individuals living in the major cities of Northern C...
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A growing body of research suggests that individuals raised with siblings gain social skills that facilitate relationship building with others. But while this pattern has been demonstrated among kindergartners and adults, surprisingly it does not replicate among adolescents. We analyze 4188 10–15 years olds from the United Kingdom Household Longitu...
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Most prior research on siblings has focused on the quantity of siblings, and explored siblings’ effects on educational and cognitive outcomes. In this study, we analyze data on around 4,000 10-15 years olds from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to test the effects of sibship size, child-sibling relationship quality, and other...
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Using the most recent wave of European Values Survey (EVS) data, this study explores the correlates of generalized trust by comparing Turkish and Greek communities living on the island of Cyprus. The results suggest that, besides confidence in institutions, there are different determinants of trust for each Cypriot community. In comparing Greek and...
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This paper analyzes the effects of different dimensions of religiosity and trust on religious and racial prejudice in Europe. The sample is based on 37 European countries that are current or potential members of the European Union (EU). Using multi-level logistic regression modeling and the latest wave from the European Values Study data, we test t...
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While demographers have long been concerned with population increases, recent significant declines in fertility also warrant concern. So far, however, most researchers have focused on the causes of lower fertility rather than its consequences. This study makes a theoretical contribution by proposing a new conceptual framework, which suggests that g...
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Most prior sociological research on siblings explores their effects on educational, cognitive and social outcomes. This study focuses on personality traits and extends its scope to early adolescence. Using the eighth-grade data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), it tests the relationship between number of sibl...
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Most research on the consequences of the number of siblings highlights their downside—the negative association between sibship size and educational outcomes. But recently scholars have begun to understand the potential benefits of siblings, with some research indicating that kindergartners are more socially adept when they have at least one brother...
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While demographers have long been concerned with population increases, recent significant declines in fertility also warrant concern. However, most researchers to date have focused on the causes of lower fertility rather than its consequences. Using General Social Survey (GSS) data, I tested the relationship between sibship size and generalized tru...
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In this article, I ask: Does the effect of wives' work hours on marital dissolution change across marital duration? Using the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), I find only weak evidence that wives' work hours are associated with higher marital dissolution. The effect, however, is more positive and significant...
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This study examines both the mediating effects of marital interaction and gender ideology, as well as the moderating effect of gender ideology in understanding the relationship between wives' work hours and marital dissolution. This paper also explores the role of gender for couples who disagree in their relation-ship assessments. Wives' additional...
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Large surveys tend to be strong on reliability and generalizability but weak on validity. The recently collected Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Birth Cohort, a large and representative sample of over 10,000 infants assessed at 9 and 24 months, took a provocative step toward trying to improve the validity of measures of infants’ environmental co...
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Using the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction, we consider how infidelity, pornography consumption, marital satisfaction, sexual frequency, premarital sex, and cohabitation are associated with married couples’ sexual satisfaction. Data from 433 couples are analyzed with structural equation models to determine the contributions of (a...

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... Quality of the marital relationship determines the mental health of married individuals [1]. Therefore, mental health professionals attach special importance to the study of family and marital life [2]. Differences in attitudes, beliefs, and expectations pertaining to the spousal relationship may lead to an imbalance in the marital relationship [3]. ...
... Since having a child is usually a couple's mutual decision, both partners' situations will likely influence it (Nitsche et al., 2018). However, only a few studies have explicitly considered the employment situations of partners in tandem (Latshaw & Yucel, 2022). Among those, some have suggested that men's, rather than women's, employment situations might be more relevant for family decisions (Busetta et al., 2019) because women can often count on a male 'breadwinner' (Vignoli et al., 2012). ...
... Given that family roles represent core components of adult identity, limited abilities or even failures in fulfilling family role expectations disrupt family-related identity formation and maintenance, which is likely to be experienced as stressful and result in declines in psychological well-being, including increased depressive symptoms. Prior research has also suggested that work-family conflicts and psychological distress are bidirectionally associated with each other over time because an employee's psychological health status can also shape their work choices and decisions, reactions to work events, and work attitudes and experiences (Demerouti et al., 2004;Yucel & Borgmann, 2021). Such reciprocal associations are not confined to one period of parenting but likely continue well across life periods as children grow older (e.g., Westrupp et al., 2016). ...
... Performance is the completion of a predetermined task evaluated against cost or speed factors. In terms of employees, it can be defined as the effort they make to reach the goals of the organization (Yucel & Chung, 2023). Work performance; It refers to the rate at which the organization or person realizes the goals at the planned time in order to realize the goals of the organization (Barutçugil, 2002). ...
... The number of crossings between the two sides from 2003 to 2019 is said to have reached 35 million (Yucel & Psaltis, 2020); in 2019 alone, 3.7 million crossings took place. The figure declined to 780,000 in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic but rose to 1.2 million in 2021. ...
... Regarding WFC, studies have shown that it is associated with many manifestations among children, including mental health [6,[30][31][32], internalized problems [33][34][35][36] emotional problems [37], externalized problems [38], and aggression [39]. However, other studies find no significant direct relationship [40][41][42][43]. ...
... Social support is currently a concern in occupational stress studies (Alves et al., 2022;Karadaş & Duran, 2022;X. Li et al., 2022), work-life balance (Boakye et al., 2021;Inggamara et al., 2022;Köse et al., 2021), and work-family balance (Akanni & Ajila, 2021;Presti et al., 2022;Yucel, 2021). In educational context, researchers also highlight the relationship of social support with job stress (Johnson et al., 2021;Tehreem et al., 2022;Winding et al., 2022), work-life balance (Huda et al., 2023;Rashid et al., 2022), work-family balance (Pattusamy & Jacob, 2017), and work-family conflict (Akram & Ch, 2020;Achour et al., 2017;Bektaş, 2022;Sarwar & Sarfraz, 2016). ...
... Also known as work-family-conflict or work interference with family, work-privacy-conflict (WPC) points to the negative influence experiences at work, such as its amount or demands, may have on private life (Garthus-Niegel et al., 2016). A growing body of research has linked WPC to several negative outcomes, such as lower family and life satisfaction, underlining its importance for employees (Allen et al., 2000;Kinnunen et al., 2004;Yucel & Fan, 2019). This tension may be even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic with an increasing number of employees working from home, possibly amplifying the potential spill-over between work and private life (Dockery & Bawa, 2020;Schieman et al., 2020). ...
... Trust towards former adversaries is predicted by positive direct intergroup contact with former adversaries (e.g., Çakal et al., 2021;Yucel & Psaltis, 2020), and thus it is also likely to be affected by indirect intergroup contact, such as information about former adversaries from the mass media. For example, information about cooperation or friendship between former adversaries (e.g., in news or movies) could be linked to the perception of trustworthiness of the former adversary. ...
... In this study, it was observed that married ER nurses experienced higher levels of transition shock compared to unmarried nurses. However, caution should be [32]. These additional responsibilities can increase the overall psychological burden experienced by married nurses, making the transition into a new work environment more challenging [33]. ...