Beyond Just Resilience: The Important Role of Work-Family Resources for Military Service Members

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• Personal Author:
  Bodner TE ; Brady JM ; Brossoit RM ; Crain TL ; Hammer LB ; Wong JR
• Description:
  The military has allocated extensive resources to improve service member resilience in an effort to decrease the impact of stressors on health and well-being. Previous research has linked resilience to various positive outcomes (e.g., physical and mental health, job satisfaction) and has established that service members face unique and challenging work-family experiences. However, the importance of resilience to work-family experiences remains underexplored. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study examines the relationships between resilience (i.e., the ability to bounce back from stressors) and work-family outcomes, and whether organizational work-family resources of work-family climate perceptions and family-supportive supervisor behavior moderate these relationships. Based on a sample of 417 Army National Guard service members from 10 workgroups, and using a multilevel path model, we found that more resilient service members experience lower family-to-work conflict and greater work-to-family enrichment. Further, the relationship between resilience and family-to-work enrichment was significant and stronger for service members who perceive their work climate as family-supportive compared to the relationship for those who do not. Improving resilience in military personnel may help to facilitate positive work-family experiences, but resilience is likely most beneficial when organizational work-family resources (i.e., a family-supportive work climate) are also available. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Resilience Families Job Stress Mental Health Military Military Personnel Total Worker Health TWH Work-family Work-family Resources Work-life Balance Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Colorado ; Louisiana ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 6 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  425-450
• Volume:
  6
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066332
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2022 Sep; 6(3):425-450
• Contact Point Address:
  Jacqueline R Wong, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
• Email:
  jacqueline.wong@colostate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212801/cdc_212801_DS1.pdf
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