Multiple roles for both men and women enhance feelings of well-being through all of the following mechanisms except:

Correct answer: C. Multiple roles allow an individual to focus more on work success

  • A. Success in one role can buffer the effects of failure in another role
  • B. Multiple role increase the opportunity for social support
  • C. Multiple roles allow an individual to focus more on work success
  • D. Multiple role increase an individual's cognitive complexity

Explanation

Multiple roles can provide social support, increase cognitive complexity, and allow success in one role to protect self-esteem after failure in another. They do not necessarily make a person focus more on work success, so option c is the exception.

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