Work-Family Organizational Support as a Predictor of Work-Family Conflict, Enrichment, and Balance: Crossover and Spillover Effects in Dual-Income Couples

Abstract: Dual-income families are challenged by several issues in terms of conciliation between the working environment, the family context and the management of children. This paper, consistently with spillover and crossover hypotheses, aimed at examining the intermediate role of work-family balance, linking on work-family organizational support, work-to-family enrichment and conflict as predictors, and on family-life satisfaction of dual-income families’ both partners as final outcomes. It was expected that work-family organizational support would be related to lower work-to-family conflict and higher enrichment and, through them, with higher work-family balance; moreover, a positive association between work-family balance and family-life satisfaction of both partners was assumed. 390 double-income heterosexual couples participated in our study; 76.2% of the couples were parents. Structural equation modelling results showed that work-family balance was negatively predicted by work-to-fami.... https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/1931

Object Details

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

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Work-Family Organizational Support as a Predictor of Work-Family Conflict, Enrichment, and Balance: Crossover and Spillover Effects in Dual-Income Couples ; volume:16 ; number:1 ; day:03 ; month:03 ; year:2020 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 16, Heft 1 (03.03.2020)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Lo Presti, Alessandro ; Monica Molino ; Federica Emanuel ; Alfonso Landolfi ; Chiara Ghislieri

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v16i1.1931
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101416383454831986
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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