Work Stressors and Partner Social Undermining: Comparing Negative Affect and Psychological Detachment as Mechanisms

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• Personal Author:
  Cho E ; Meier LL
• Description:
  With the mounting evidence that employees' work experiences spill over into the family domain and cross over to family members, it is important to understand the underlying mechanism through which work experiences affect the family domain and what factors may alleviate the adverse impact of work stress. Expanding previous research that mainly focused on the affect-based mechanism (negative affect), the present research investigated a resource-based mechanism (psychological detachment from work) in the relationship linking two work stressors (high workload and workplace incivility) with social undermining toward the partner at home. We also explored the relative strength of the mediating effects of the two mechanisms. In addition, we tested whether relationship satisfaction moderates the proposed effect of detachment on partner undermining. We tested these research questions using two studies with differing designs: a five-wave longitudinal study (N = 470) and a multisource study (N = 131). The results suggest that stressful work experiences affect the family domain via lack of detachment as well as negative affect, that the two pathways have comparable strength, and that high relationship satisfaction mitigates the negative effect of lack of detachment on partner undermining. In sum, this research extends the spillover-crossover model by establishing that poor psychological detachment from work during leisure time is an additional mechanism that links work and family. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Men Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: The Spillover-crossover Model Employees Families Humans Models Psychological Detachment From Work Psychological Factors Psychology Questionnaires Relationship Satisfaction Social Undermining Sociological Factors Stress Work Environment Workers Work Experience Work Schedules Work Stressors

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• ISSN:
  1076-8998
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  359-372
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064637
• Citation:
  J Occup Health Psychol 2019 Jun; 24(3):359-372
• Contact Point Address:
  Laurenz L. Meier, Department of Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Email:
  laurenz.meier@unine.ch
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5279085f639794fb073f99ef5357751a157e3003fabb5db3a9b356ad47ca7f764ad6555dc746db61b29a7165e64f5f41f08efbbcd5d4072277fb41eeafe14c88
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223067/cdc_223067_DS1.pdf
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