Abstract:
The purposes of this study were, 1) to study the relationship between the work balance
and the family balance of the working adults, 2) to develop the work balance and the family balance with the integrative group counseling. The samples used were working adults aged 25-45 years old
who are working in private companies in the eastern region. They were divided into 2 groups.
The first group was 705 persons who were used for studying the relationship between the work balance and the family balance. The second group was 20 persons who were who randomly assigned to experimental group and control group. The experimental group had participated in the integrative group counseling programs 12 sessions of 90 minutes each. The control group went with normal daily living. The instruments were the work-family balance scale developed by the researcher with the reliability
at 0.83 and the integrative group counseling model with a consistency index at .06-1.00 The statistics were an analysis of the correlation between the work balance and the family balance, and an analysis
of variance with repeated measures. The results were as follows.
1. The family balance directly affected the work balance by 41% and the work balance directly affected the family balance by 62%. The hypothesized structural equation model of the work balance and the family balance was adjusted, resulting the level of goodness of fit index with 2= 26.97 df = 22 p-value = .21250, 2 / df = 1.22, RMSEA = .018, RMR = .0046, SRMR = .014, CFI = 1.00,
GFI = .99, AGFI = .98, CN = 1017.91.
2. The work balance and the family balance of the experimental group who participated in the program at the pre-test period, post-test and follow-up were statistically significantly different at .05 level.
3. The work balance and the family balance of the experimental group and the control group in the pre-test period, post-test and follow-up were statistically significantly different at .01 level.