This article explores relationships among employees' work and nonwork psychological involvements in an effort to uncover some of the complexity of employees as multidimensional human beings. The relationships found reflect a pattern of involvements consistent with Van Maanen and Schein `s (1977) three-dimensional interactional schema of work, family, and self-development. These findings suggest that models of employees' accommodation to work and nonwork involvements need to incorporate a separate "self" dimension. Although direct results indicate a segregation pattern of accommodation to work and nonwork psychological involvements, closer examination reveals a pattern of links between work and nonwork involvements, with personal life efficacy as the pivotal variable.
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