Work–Family Conflict in Dual-Earner Couples: Within-Individual and Crossover Effects of Work and Family

Hammer, Leslie B.; Allen, Elizabeth S.; Grigsby, Tenora D.

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“…These studies typically found that higher levels of job demands reported by employees were associated with marital dissatisfaction and poorer psychological wellbeing of their spouses. More recent crossover studies have incorporated partner dyads [14][15][16] , and investigated the process that translates job demands into impaired partner well-being. Job and family demands are the common antecedents of the crossover process.…”

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

Shimazu

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

Shimazu

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Demerouti

2009

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…Although both men and women may experience work-family conflict, women report more conflict than men due to them spending more combined time on work and family activities (Frone et al, 1992;Hammer et al, 1997;Lundberg et al, 1994). For example, the study by Lundberg et al (1994) comparing total workload (sum of paid and unpaid work), conflict between demands of work and family, and control over housework between men and women in white-collar occupations, showed that number of children at home was a crucial factor with regard to these variables.…”

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Work- and family-related variables, work–family conflict and women's well-being: some observations

Noor

2003

Community, Work & Family

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“…Moreover, Duxbury and Higgins (1991) found that work family conflict is strongly related to hindering quality of family life more for men than women. Interestingly, Hammer et al (1997) examined the effects of work family conflict on dual earner couples. Their results show that regardless of gender, work family conflict is related to higher work involvement and less schedule flexibility.…”

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The nature of work family conflict: A review and agenda for future research

Kengatharan

2015

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The main purpose of this research was to identify gaps in the existing literature on work family conflict from the past 30 years, and develop a viable research plan for further research. Research papers from peer-reviewed journals were collected from multiple databases including Proquest, Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost), Expanded Academic (Gale), Emerald, ISI Web Science, the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College, and Google Scholar. Full text papers published in English in the last three decades were included in this study. The collected papers were then classified and analysed using thematic content analysis. Factors influencing work family conflict, their consequences and the relevant constructs were systematically identified and summarised. The gaps in the extant literature from the past 30 years were identified and these were subsumed under a regional gap-theoretical cultural perspective, a measurement gap, cross cultural studies, organisational responsiveness, environmental factors and gender role theory. The present study serves as a springboard for future studies and theory building on the interaction between the work and family domains. This research is original in its nature as it has identified major strands of the extant literature on work family conflict and ipso facto it can guide research scholars towards the unknown terrain of the work family sphere. This research urges policy makers, practitioners and members of organisations to digest this knowledge and it aims to make them aware of the overarching area of work and family in the contemporary world. The major limitation of this study is the Tower of Babel Bias, to wit, research studies not published in English were excluded from this study.

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Work–Family Conflict in Dual-Earner Couples: Within-Individual and Crossover Effects of Work and Family

Cited by 358 publications

References 37 publications

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

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

Work- and family-related variables, work–family conflict and women's well-being: some observations

The nature of work family conflict: A review and agenda for future research

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