Title
Work-to-family conflict and family-to-work conflict among Japanese dual-earner couples with preschool children: A spillover-crossover perspective
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Shimazu A.
Kubota K.
Bakker A.
Demerouti E.
Shimada K.
Kawakami N.
Publisher(s)
Japan Society for Occupational Health
Abstract
Objectives: This study among Japanese dual-earner couples examined the independent and combined associations of work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC) with psychological health of employees and their partners and the relationship quality between partners. Methods: The matched responses of 895 couples were analyzed with logistic regression analysis to examine whether there were differences among the four work-family conflict groups (i.e., no conflict, WFC, FWC and both conflicts groups) in terms of own psychological distress, social undermining (i.e., negative behaviors directed toward the target person) reported by partners and partner's psychological distress. The no conflicts group was used as the reference group. Results: The both conflicts group had the highest odds ratios for own psychological distress and social undermining towards the partner for both genders. In addition, for husbands, the both conflicts group had the highest odds ratio for partner's psychological distress, whereas for wives, it did not. Conclusions: Dual experiences of WFC and FWC have adverse associations with psychological health of employees and relationship quality between partners of both genders. In addition, dual experiences in husbands have an adverse association with psychological health of their partners (i.e., wives), whereas this is not the case for wives.
Start page
234
End page
243
Volume
55
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología
Salud ocupacional
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84884915928
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Occupational Health
ISSN of the container
13419145
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Directorio de Producción Científica
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