Good mental health despite work-family conflict? The within-domain and cross-domain buffering potentials of family and work resources

Abstract: Objective: This article investigates whether within-domain and cross-domain buffering by family and work resources can help mitigate the negative mental health effects of work-to-family conflicts (WFC) and family-to-work conflicts (FWC). Background: Most literature on the work–life interface stresses the need to maintain employees’ health and well-being by preventing the emergence of work–family conflicts. Since such conflicts tend to be an unavoidable concomitant of role expansion, we aim to put forward the debate on the conditions that might prevent their negative health consequences instead. Method: Fixed-effects linear regression analyses were applied to a sample of 4,920 employees in a three-wave employer–employee panel study in Germany. Using interaction analyses, we tested within-domain and cross-domain buffering of family (social support and relative bargaining power within partnerships) and work (job resources, support from direct supervisors or co-workers, formal and info.... https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/726

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Good mental health despite work-family conflict? The within-domain and cross-domain buffering potentials of family and work resources ; volume:34 ; number:4 ; year:2022 ; Artikel in verschiedenen Dokumentversionen mit Begleitmaterial veröffentlicht ; Journal of family research ; 34, Heft 4 (2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Reimann, Mareike ; Diewald, Martin

Further information

• DOI: 10.20377/jfr-726-651
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023091509514702487646
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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