The Impact of Workload on Work-Family Conflict and Family Satisfaction: Spouse Comparison using the Actor -Partner Interdependence Model
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Teng, Shih-Yi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between workload, WFC and family satisfaction. In addition, the study also examined whether in a marital relationship the effect of an individual’s WFC on his/ her own family satisfaction and the spouse’s family satisfaction will have a significant difference. The study used workload as the independent variable and WFC as the mediator in order to (a) explore their main effects on family satisfaction and (b) investigate the mutual crossover effects and their differences between husbands and wives in the framework of this study.
By using structured questionnaires and the convenience sampling method, the study collected valid responses from 490 full-time workers in Taiwan, which equals to 245 couples. The structural equation modeling showed that individual''s workload has a significant negative impact on family satisfaction through WFC. However, husbands and wives do not have a significant difference on the effects of WFC on family satisfaction. In addition, this study also found that mutual crossover effects do exist. It means that an individual’s WFC negatively influences his/her spouse’s family satisfaction. Nevertheless, different from our expectations, no significant gender differences exist in these crossover effects, which represents that the impact of wives’ WFC on husbands’ family satisfaction would not be higher than that of husbands’ WFC on wives’ family satisfaction. Finally, the study originally expected that influences of the spillover effects to be higher than that of the crossover effects. However, the result revealed that no significant difference exists between them.
Subjects
工作負荷
工作－家庭衝突
家庭滿意度
跨界效果
性別差異
Type
thesis
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