Work-family conflict and enrichment and perceived health: Does type of family matter?

With a little help from my family: A mixed-method study on the outcomes of family support and workload

“…For instance, van Steenbergen, Ellemers, and Mooijaart (2007) revealed that, if the experience of conflict was highly predictive of stress-related outcomes (e.g., emotional exhaustion), the inclusion of a similar construct to enrichment, namely facilitation (i.e., individual’s judgement that participation in one role makes participation in another role easier, p. 281), significantly and substantially improved the prediction of positive work outcomes (e.g., affective commitment) as well as non-work outcomes (e.g., life satisfaction), over and above the effects of conflict. Also Mauno et al (2011) underlined that FWE was a strong predictor of life satisfaction.…”

“…As several studies linked work-to-family conflict to lower life satisfaction (e.g., Allen, Herst, Bruck, & Sutton, 2000; Eby, Casper, Lockwood, Bordeaux, & Brinley, 2005), it is not so surprising to expect the reverse; that is, evidence suggesting the relationship between enrichment and life satisfaction (e.g., McNall et al, 2010), although not so convincingly as it is for work-to-family conflict (Mauno, Kinnunen, & Rantanen, 2011). For instance, van Steenbergen, Ellemers, and Mooijaart (2007) revealed that, if the experience of conflict was highly predictive of stress-related outcomes (e.g., emotional exhaustion), the inclusion of a similar construct to enrichment, namely facilitation (i.e., individual’s judgement that participation in one role makes participation in another role easier, p. 281), significantly and substantially improved the prediction of positive work outcomes (e.g., affective commitment) as well as non-work outcomes (e.g., life satisfaction), over and above the effects of conflict.…”

Between Money and Love: Work-family Conflict Among Swedish Low-income Single Mothers

“…The findings in this study reveal the ways in which such working conditions aggravate the conflict between working life and family life, and show that a crucial dimension of this is that they make it difficult to act in accordance with ethical ideals about good mothering. The feelings of insufficiency this causes may be key to understanding the profound negative consequences that problems with integrating paid work and caring commitments can have on individuals' physical and mental health (e.g., Blanch & Aluja, 2012;Byron, 2005;Mauno et al, 2011). To conclude, the findings of this study not only dispute the rather overoptimistic image of the situation for single mothers in Sweden but also suggest that the trend toward a growing flexibilization of the labor market is likely to increase the structural ambivalence among working-class single mothers.…”

Work-Family Conflict: A Review Of Antecedents And Outcomes

“…Nevertheless, there is evidence that family characteristics affect negative spillover from work to family as well. Parents report more conflict than non-parents (Mauno et al, 2011;Byron, 2005). Number of children living in the household or their presence are, for example, positively associated with conflict (Beauregard, 2006;Netemeyer et al, 1996;Kinnunen & Mauno, 1998), whereas the age of children has a negative influence (Winslow, 2005).…”