The most pronounced counseling implication of this study is its support for applying and expanding the comprehensive career counseling model proposed by Bloland and Edwards (1981). Their model focused on helping people improve their quality of life by meeting their psychological needs through a combination of work and leisure activities. Because increases in scores on both the JDI and the LSM indicate increases in need satisfaction (Pearson, 1998), the results of the current study suggest that as participants reported more of their needs being met through their jobs and leisure, they experienced higher levels of psychological health.

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Given that role overload was the strongest predictor of psychological health for all of the variables measured, it appears that women's perceptions toward and subjective experiences of their roles are more important than the number of roles in predicting overall psychological health and well-being. At the same time, results showed that the...
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