An Empirical Study of Occupational Stress Transmission in Working Couples

Jones, Fiona; Fletcher, Ben

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“…Their findings suggest that stress experienced by the husband at work leads to stress for the wife at home as she tends to adjust her housework efforts to compensate for the work stresses of her spouse. Evidence for occupational stress transmission from men to women is also reported by Jones and Fletcher (1993). Westman and Vinokur (1998) regard shared life events as an important mediating process of distress levels within couples.…”

Section: Hypothesis 3 One Partner's Working Time Arrangements May Spimentioning

confidence: 94%

Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

Wunder

Heineck

2013

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractWe analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly underemployment is detrimental for well-being. We further provide first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we control for the partner's well-being. This suggests that well-being is contagious, and the spillover is due to interdependent utilities. Females experience the highest well-being when their partner is working full-time hours. Male wellbeing is unaffected over a wide interval of the partner's working hours.

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Section: Hypothesis 3 One Partner's Working Time Arrangements May Spimentioning

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Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

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Heineck

2013

Labour Economics

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“…Empirically, Kenny and Acitelli 23) have shown that individuals in close relationships are able to accurately predict their partners' feelings of closeness in the relationship. Moreover, Jones and Fletcher 24) have demonstrated that individuals have accurate perceptions of their partners' jobs. Matthews et al 25) found evidence for the contention that individuals are able to perceive how much their partners' work interferes with the relationship.…”

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How Job Demands Affect an Intimate Partner: A Test of the Spillover‐Crossover Model in Japan

Shimazu

Bakker

Demerouti

2009

Journal of Occupational Health

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How Job Demands Affect an IntimatePartner: A Test of the Spillover-Crossover Model in Japan: Akihito SHIMAZU, et al. Department of Mental Health, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine-Objectives: The present study examined how job demands affect an intimate partner's well-being. We hypothesized that job demands have a negative influence on partner well-being through the experience of work-family conflict (WFC) and an impaired quality of the relationship (reduced social support and increased social undermining towards the partner). Methods: The participants of this study were 99 couples of dual-earner parents in Japan. Results: Consistent with hypotheses, men's job demands (i.e. overload and emotional demands) were positively related to their own reports of WFC, and indirectly to women's ratings of men's WFC. Consequently, women's ratings of men's WFC were negatively related to the quality of the relationship (i.e. decreased social support from and increased social undermining by men), which, in turn, led to women's ill-health (i.e. depressive symptoms and physical complaints). We found similar findings for the model starting with women's job demands; gender did not affect the strength of the relationships in the model. Conclusions: These findings suggest that high job demands initiate a process of work-family conflict and poor relationship quality, which may eventually affect the intimate partner's well-being in an unfavorable way. Research has suggested that Japanese employees are highly committed to their work 1) . Indeed, the Japanese work longer hours than employees in most other industrial nations 2) . These long work hours may become a problem for employees' intimate relationships with their partners when efforts to fulfill the demands of work interfere with the ability to fulfill the demands of the roles as a spouse, parent, or caregiver 3) . The present study among Japanese dual-earner couples will focus on the impact of job demands on partner wellbeing. Specifically, we will examine whether high job demands may initiate a process of work-family conflict and consequently affect the quality of the relationship (i.e., increased social undermining and reduced social support provided to an intimate partner), which eventually affects partner well-being in an unfavorable way. We will use the recently formulated Spillover-Crossover model 3,4) to test our hypotheses.The Spillover-Crossover model Earlier studies have identified two different ways in which strain is carried over from the work to the family domain 5,6) . Work-family conflict or spillover is a withinperson across-domains transmission of demands and consequent strain from one area of life to another. Previous research has primarily focused on how experiences in the work domain are transferred to and interfere with the non-work domain for the same individual 7) . In contrast, crossover involves transmission across individuals, whereby demands and their consequent strain have effects on between closely related persons 6) . Thus...

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“…For example, Jackson and Maslach (1982) found that police officers experiencing job stress were more likely to display anger, become less involved in family matters, and report less satisfactory marriages. Jones and Fletcher (1993) found employees' job stress carried over into their marriages and affected the stress experienced by their spouses. In a typical international assignment, expatriates are likely to be in a familiar environment while they are at work, as compared with spouses who are typically more socially isolated.…”

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An examination of crossover and spillover effects of spousal and expatriate cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes.

Takeuchi¹,

Yun²,

Tesluk³

2002

Journal of Applied Psychology

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(2002). An Examination of crossover and spillover effects of spousal and expatriate cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 655-666. This is the Pre-Published VersionCrossover and Spillover Effects 2 AbstractIntegrating work-family and cross-cultural adjustment literatures, the researchers proposed and tested a spillover and crossover model of expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment with reciprocal relationships. Spillover effects refer to the influence that expatriate attitudes in a particular domain (e.g., work) have on attitudes in other domains (e.g., nonwork), whereas crossover effects refer to the influence of expatriate attitudes on the spouse's attitudes (and vice versa).Data collected from Japanese expatriates, their spouses, and their superiors strongly supported both spillover and crossover effects between expatriate and spousal cross-cultural adjustment. In addition, expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment was found to be related to satisfaction, which, in turn, was found to be negatively related to expatriates' intention to return to their homeland early.Crossover and Spillover Effects 3 An Examination of Crossover and Spillover Effects of Spousal and Expatriate Cross-Cultural Adjustment on Expatriate OutcomesAn increasing number of firms are conducting business globally as they explore opportunities worldwide (Mervosh & McClenahen, 1997). It is widely recognized that effectively using expatriate employees on international assignments is a critical factor for companies to succeed in their global ventures (Carpenter, Sanders, & Gregersen, 2000).However, failure or premature return rates for expatriates are very high, and the outcomes of international assignments are dependent on many factors (cf. Black, Mendenhall, & Oddou, 1991). One reason for the high failure rates is the problem with the expatriate successfully adjusting to the foreign culture (e.g., Garonzik, Brockner, & Siegel, 2000). In addition, as Hays (1974) noted some time ago, another contributing factor is the degree to which the expatriate's spouse successfully manages the cross-cultural adjustment process.Despite the gains made in understanding expatriate cross-cultural adjustment, prior empirical research has tended to neglect the role of spouses (Black & Stephens, 1989;Dowling, Welch, & Schuler, 1999). More recently, however, scholars have started to examine the effects of cross-cultural adjustment of spouses on expatriates (e.g., Caligiuri, Hyland, Joshi, & Bross, 1998;Shaffer & Harrison, 1998). In particular, Caligiuri et al. (1998) applied perspectives from the work-family conflict literature and found spouse-family cross-cultural adjustment to positively influence expatriates' overall cross-cultural adjustment. These influences of an expatriate's attitudes and behaviors on those of the spouse (and vice versa) are referred to as crossover effects (cf. Westman & Etzion, 1995, 1999. Although previous examinations have examined the effect of spouses on expatriates, little has been done t...

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An Empirical Study of Occupational Stress Transmission in Working Couples

Cited by 155 publications

References 24 publications

Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

Working time preferences, hours mismatch and well-being of couples: Are there spillovers?

How Job Demands Affect an Intimate Partner: A Test of the Spillover‐Crossover Model in Japan

An examination of crossover and spillover effects of spousal and expatriate cross-cultural adjustment on expatriate outcomes.

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