Sharing Experiences and Stressors at Work and at Home: A Model of Work-Linked Couples

Huffman, Ann H.; Dunbar, Nora; Klinefelter, Zachary; Howes, Satoris S.

doi:10.1007/s41542-018-0017-5

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“…Partnership quality may also reduce where a close working relationship of the partners blurs the boundaries between working life and private life. In these cases, conflicts at work can all too easily spill into marital quality (Foley and Powell, 1997;Huffman et al, 2018). Occupational health literature even mentions insomnia spillovers as a particular problem of work-linked couples (Fritz et al, 2019), which can lead to low wellbeing (Piper, 2016).…”

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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Hennecke

Hetschko

2021

SSRN Journal

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Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked and non-work-linked partners. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2019), we estimate the effect of working in the same occupation and/or industry on life satisfaction as well as satisfaction with four areas of life: income, work, family and leisure. In the process, we employ pooled OLS estimations and instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest that being work-linked increases satisfaction with life as well as income and job satisfaction. These findings are consistent with positive assortative matching and mutual career support between work-linked partners. Our conclusions concern hiring couples as a means of recruiting exceptional talent.

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Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Hennecke

Hetschko

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…However, the tactics that worked to protect troops in the trenches may not be the same that protect veterans from mental health problems when returning home to a peaceful western society. Despite its ability to mitigate the adverse effects of trauma exposure in a warzone, it is possible that overtly relying on emotional support in the occupational setting can end up being a dual edged sword, that “steals” attention and maintenance of family relations (Huffman et al., 2018; Paley et al., 2013).…”

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Differences in resilience profiles between military veterans and the general population: An exploratory latent profile analysis using the HUNT‐4 survey

Nordstrand,

Bøe,

Hjemdal

et al. 2023

Stress and Health

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Using latent profile analyses, the current work investigated levels of adverse childhood experiences, symptoms of anxiety and depression and 3 dimensions of relational promotive factors) to identify resilience profiles in a large general population sample (N = 161,622, mean age = 53.02; SD = 17.80; 56.1% females). We then used the same method to identify the resilience profiles of military veterans (N = 386, mean age = 43.47; SD = 10.08; 9.8% females), all of whom had served in Afghanistan. A four‐profile‐solution was the best fitting for the general population (High resilient 30%, Moderate resilient 13%, Low resilient 53%, Work/social‐based resilience 4%), while a three‐profile‐solution had the best fit in the veteran cohort (Family‐based resilience 28%, Work/social‐based resilience 62%, Hardy loners 10%). To ground the identified profiles in occupational function, we also checked how they predicted reports of sleep difficulties, job demand and job control. Despite both samples inhabiting a geographic region known for high socioeconomic similarity among residents, we found marked differences in profile‐solutions between the military veterans and the general population. Our findings suggests that resilience profiles are highly influenced by cohort characteristics and the specific resources needed to manage a given stressor load. Accordingly, the generalisability of specific protective factors may be low across distinct cohorts, and reliable findings need to be obtained in specific populations as defined by stressor context, sample characteristics, and relevant outcomes.

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